Who is B H Fairchild

B.H. Fairchild (born 1942) is an American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is The Blue Buick (W.W. Norton, 2014), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, The Sewanee Review. His third poetry collection, The Art of the Lathe, winner of the 1997 Beatrice Hawley Award (Alice James Books, 1998), brought Fairchild's work to national prominence, garnering him a large number of awards and fellowships including the William Carlos Williams Award, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, California Book Award, Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, National Book Award (finalist), Capricorn Poetry Award, and Rockefeller and Gug...
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B H Fairchild Poems

  • Angels
    Elliot Ray Neiderland, home from college
    one winter, hauling a load of Herefords
    from Hogtown to Guymon with a pint of
    Ezra Brooks and a copy of Rilkeâ??s Duineser ...
  • The Problem
    The Problem

    The name of the bow is life, but its work is death.
    â??The Fragments ...
  • Motion Sickness
    I am tired of the heave and swell,
    the deep lunge in the belly, the gut's
    dumb show of dance and counterdance,
    sway and pause, the pure jig of nausea ...
  • Song
    "Gesang ist Dasein"

    A small thing done well, the steel bit paring
    the cut end of the collar, lifting delicate ...
  • Flight
    Outside my window the wasps
    are making their slow circle,
    dizzy flights of forage and return,
    hovering among azaleas...
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World 5 White 5 Great 5 Life 5 Blue 5 Night 5 Iron 4 Death 4 Black 4 Body 4


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Charlieconnelly: came across this poem by the american poet b.h. fairchild over the weekend and it's just beautiful (and a bit heartbreaking). from his collection 'an ordinary life'. 'often the dying will ask for a map'
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