Linda Louise Bierds (born 1945 in

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) is an

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and professor of English and

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at the

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, where she also received her B.A. in 1969. Her books include ''Flights of the Harvest Mare''; ''The Stillness, the Dancing''; ''Heart and Perimeter''; and ''The Ghost Trio'' (Henry Holt 1994). Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in ''

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''. Her poems are featured in ''American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets'' (2006) and many other anthologies. She lives on

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Awards

She has received fellowships from the

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in 1988, the

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, Artist Trust and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995. In 1998, she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T.

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"genius" grant. She received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from

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in 2011.

Bibliography

Collections

*''Beasts : Three Short Stories'' University of Washington, 1971 *''Snaring the flightless birds : the legends of Maui'' Allegany Mountain Press, 1982, *''Off the Aleutian chain : poetry'', L'Epervier Press, 1985, *''Flights of the harvest-mare'', Ahsahta Press, 1985, *''The stillness, the dancing : poems'', H. Holt, 1988, *''Heart and perimeter : poems'' H. Holt, 1991, *''The ghost trio : poems'' H. Holt, 1994, *''The profile makers : poems'' Henry Holt, 1997, *''The seconds : poems'' G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001, *''There'' : Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, November 2002 (2002) *''First Hand: Poems'', Penguin Group, 2005, *''Flight: New and Selected Poems'' Penguin, 2008 *''Roget's Illusion : poems'' G. P. Putnams's Sons, 2014 *''The Hardy Tree : poems'' Copper Canyon Press, 2019

List of poems

References

External links

"Lyric and Narrative"
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