Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Springer, Jane Ellen
Author's Email Address	jes7036@fsu.edu
URN	etd-06052008-180118
Title	Dear Blackbird,
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title David Kirby Committee Chair Ernest Rehder Committee Member James Kimbrell Committee Member Mark Winegardner Committee Member Robert Olen Butler Committee Member
Keywords	poetry narrative letters southern poetry Florida poet Dear Blackbird Jane Springer
Date of Defense	2007-12-07
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract 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.
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