Where She Always Was: Poems by Frannie Lindsay (May Swenson Poetry Award Series)
by Frannie Lindsay
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In his foreword, J.D. McClatchy speaks of the musical qualities of Lindsay's work: ""It is impossible, reading her poems, not to hear a musical hand at work. This is not just a matter of delicacy or virtuosity. It is also a matter of knowing how to phrase a line... Lindsay moves from detail to trope with utter poise, with an intuitive sense of what to sustain or emphasize. Her language is crisp. I can pick a stanza at random... and praise its plosive energy, its modulated vowels, its variety show more and elan... Where She Always Was allows us . . . the rare gratification of watching a poet- show lessTags
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Frannie Lindsay's work has appeared in many literary journals, including Agni, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Atlantic Monthly, College English, Field, Folio, Great River Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Shenandoah, Small Pond Magazine, Spire, Tampa Review, TriQuarterly, Yale Review, and others. Ms. Lindsay has been show more awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship, as well as residencies at the MacDowell and Millay Colonies and at Yaddo. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She is a classical pianist who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her three retired greyhounds show less
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