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    The Canopy
    The Canopy
    The Canopy
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    The Canopy

    By Patricia Clark

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    How do we move forward after enormous loss? Perhaps like the lightning-struck tree, “half of it shorn of leaves the other half full, standing, / swaying….”  In these beautiful, intimate poems spoken from the heart of grief, the speaker urges herself not to flinch, “letting the knife settle where it will, / blade nes

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTerrapin Books
    Release dateJan 2, 2017
    ISBN9780997666663
    The Canopy
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    Patricia Clark

    Patricia Clark is the author of The Canopy (Terrapin Books, 2017), her fifth book of poetry which won the 2018 PSV Book of the Year Award, and three chapbooks, including Deadlifts (New Michigan Press, 2018). She teaches in the Writing Department at Grand Valley State University in Michigan where she is also the university's poet in residence. She has won The Fourth River's Folio Competition, Mississippi Review's Poetry Prize, second prize in the Pablo Neruda/Hardiman Prize from Nimrod, and was the co-winner of Poetry Society of America's Lucille Medwick Prize. She has completed residencies at The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Colony, and The Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. She was also the poet laureate of Grand Rapids, Michigan from 2005-2007, and for many years she coordinated Poetry Night, part of GVSU's Fall Arts Celebration.

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