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B. H. Fairchild, the author of several acclaimed poetry collections, is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and teaches in the creative writing-PhD program at the University of North Texas.
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Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Collaboratore — 766 copie
The Best American Poetry 2000 (2000) — Collaboratore — 213 copie
The Best American Poetry 2010 (2010) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Collaboratore — 48 copie

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acrov | Jan 3, 2024 |
There were some gems in here, don’t get me wrong (the title poem The Blue Buick is masterful), but if I read one more poem about lathes, I was going to toss this over the ridge. I get it, you are a mid-western, blue-eyed, blue collar bloke who has cashed in on all that HARD WORK to sit on his ass and write poems now. Good for you. It was like a Bob Seger album without the benefit of a band.
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railarson | Feb 23, 2020 |
This 2003 offering from crusty Texan B. H. Fairchild goes straight to the top shelf of contemporary American verse. Fairchild's voice effortlessly combines the lyrical with the gritty, marrying a Westerner's laconic fatalism to the inchoate yearnings of the true romantic. Lonesome plains, deserted roads, tall tales, cars, jazz, baseball, liquor, sex…Early Occult is a fever dream of a lost America, the one that fell between the armrests of a beer-stained movie theater in Topeka, Kansas circa 1953, just before the fall.… (altro)
 
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MikeLindgren51 | Aug 7, 2018 |

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