<p>Poetry. "Ansie Baird's new book is a lovely mix of wit, emotional range, and craft--a craft that responds to each of its poetic occasions in a voice that has been tutored through her earlier collections to be sharp, humorous, intelligent, able to be at once acerbic and honestly emotional. PORCH WATCH--with its implication of constant vigil--is full of warm appreciations of friends, of elegies that compose the broken heart into a right ritual of mourning: into, indeed, a style of blessing, each one scattered where she wants all her friends' ashes to be scattered 'in the fields of praise.' I love the jaunty fortitude of these poems, each one demonstrating (without a trace of self pity or self indulgence) how a rendered life, shadows and all, can be taken on, fully engaged with. 'True things,' she says, 'make up the miracles of your life.' Her poems are just such big-hearted, open-eyed true things."--Eamon Grennan</p>

Porch Watch

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Baird, Ansie

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Foundlings Press

“Baird’s remarkable first collection is besieged by angels, messengers bearing often bitter, sometimes comic, always complicated home (and broken-home) truths. Hers is a well-stocked world inflected by elegiac understanding and a brisk, unflinching willingness to encounter the hard facts of a life marked by sadness, loss and disappointment.”—Eamon Grennan“A tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, Baird has created a richly drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.”—Chase TwichellAnsie Baird lives in Buffalo, New York.

In Advance of All Parting (White Pine Press Poetry Prize)

White Pine Press

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In Advance of All Parting (White Pine Press Poetry Prize)