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(1919-2000) was born in Albion, NY, received her MA in English and American literature from Columbia University, and taught for many years in Brockport and Kenmore, NY.  For her last thirty years she lived at Smith Pond, in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, first in a cottage close to the water-where she began to write and publish poems, and with a friend founded and for five years published a little magazine, <I>Yes-</I>and later in a new house she and Sarah Curtis built on a hill overlooking the pond.  Her previous publications include a chapbook, <I>Where in the Sun to Stand,</I> and a book, <I>And Echoes For Direction,</I> both from Judith Kitchen's State Street Press, and a renga, <I>Stalking Reflections, </I>written with Linda Allardt and privately printed, as well as many poems in magazines such as <I>The Atlantic, The Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Yankee,</I> and <I>Poetry Northwest.</I></div> <bR> <div> This last collection of her poems was edited by Linda Allardt, with the generous assistance of Sarah Curtis and Judith Kitchen.</div> <bR> <div> (Cover photo by Sarah Curtis.)</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> TABLE OF CONTENTS</div> <bR> <div> <I>THE SUN'S STROKE</I></div> <bR> <div> Catch       </div> <div> Re-reading Auden's "Musée Des Beaux Arts"       </div> <div> News From Ascona       </div> <div> Metamorphoses       </div> <div> Before the Colonels' Coup       </div> <div> Bernice's Garden     </div> <div> Drive to Town, Kerkyra     </div> <div> Reprise     </div> <div> Imagine a Perfect Day     </div> <div> All Wars Should Be Fought in This Garden     </div> <div> No Space For Star Wars. . .     </div> <div> Attempted Suicide     </div> <div> Maenad     </div> <div> Another April     </div> <div> Experiment     </div> <div> Snapshots in Rome     </div> <div> Survival     </div> <bR> <div> <I>RELATIVITY</I></div> <bR> <div> Then And Now     </div> <div> New House-First Winter     </div> <div> Telephone Insulators     </div> <div> Hunt     </div> <div> Small-Town Laundromat     </div> <div> Prospero: Paradox     </div> <div> Selfheal     </div> <div> Relativity     </div> <div> Sunset From Papa Joe's, Islamorada     </div> <div> Weather Vane     </div> <div> Heron at Islamorada     </div> <div> Sonnet For Emily Dickinson     </div> <div> Today's Loaves and Fishes     </div> <div> Birthday     </div> <div> Re-Entry     </div> <div> Harrier     </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> HARRIER</div> <bR> <div> Surely the hawk was out to kill:</div> <div> field mice knew, tunneling beneath</div> <div> flat thatches of dry weed stalks,</div> <bR> <div> and the thin grass snake easing itself</div> <div> out of a sun too suddenly winged by shadow,</div> <div> seeping down through a crack in the rocks</div> <bR> <div> secret, smooth, seamless</div> <div> like a spring sucked back to the source.</div> <div> Certainly it was hawk-hunger that patterned</div> <bR> <div> his dihedral glide and sent him quartering</div> <div> low across the winter wheat to gyre up slow</div> <div> on thermals over the fresh-plowed acres.</div> <bR> <div> And it was appetite that finally braked him</div> <div> for his plunge, talons downstretched</div> <div> toward the pond's marshy shoreline.</div> <bR> <div> He struck-and missed.  What, then, if not game</div> <div> delight sent him tilting out over the water,</div> <div> harrier of his own reflection,</div> <div> before he soared again?</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Harrier</B><I> </I>is a 44 page paperback, hand-sewn, with flat spine $10.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Harrier </B></FONT>ON-LINE </div> <div> <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" 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