Dear Blackbird, is a collection of lyric-narrative poems that seeks to capture the spirit of the rural southern towns my family grew up in. As such,letters to a blackbird (written from the point of view of a scarecrow) are interspersed like grain in between lamentations directed toward a lost childhood. When writing it I had in mind James Wright's sentiment: I want all of the love in life with all of the pain left in. / A Dissertation Submitted to the Department of English in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2008. / December 7, 2007. / Poetry Narrative Letters Southern poetry, Florida poet, Dear Blackbird, Jane Springer / Includes bibliographical references. / David Kirby, Professor Directing Dissertation; Ernest Rehder, Outside Committee Member; James Kimbrell, Committee Member; Mark Winegardner, Committee Member; Robert Olen Butler, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_176108 |
| Contributors | Springer, Jane, 1969- (authoraut), Kirby, David (professor directing dissertation), Rehder, Ernest (outside committee member), Kimbrell, James (committee member), Winegardner, Mark (committee member), Butler, Robert Olen (committee member), Department of English (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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