Song

by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

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Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty.... Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude an ambiguous wisdom, an acceptance of the sad magic that returns us constantly to the lives we might have led."--Library Journal… (more)

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This collection leaves me enchanted and unsettled in the very best way. How to weave magic out of things I think about so often, whether I want to or not (birds, flowers, god, corpses, dreams). I have so much to learn. (

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liannecollins | Jun 10, 2022 |

My favorite overtly humanist poems. They make me want to believe in believing. They so carefully, so thoughtfully chart the process of trying to believe in believing. Lovely, heartbreaking, rigorous poems. (

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wordlikeabell | Dec 8, 2008 |

An astounding collection of poems. I hear Kelly read at Purdue University before these came out and was nailed to my seat during the reading of all of the poems that ended up in this volume, including the title poem. A vital poet and someone I anxiously await further volumes from. (

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James Laughlin Award (1994)

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LA Times Book Prize (Finalist – Poetry – 1995)

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for Huck, Maria, and Macklin
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Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty.... Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude an ambiguous wisdom, an acceptance of the sad magic that returns us constantly to the lives we might have led."--Library Journal

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