Winner of the 1999 Texas Review Poetry Prize Editing Sky by David M. Parsons

"Whether he is writing about historic houses and stately anonymous trees, or flying back—flying forward!—to reconnect to his aged father, or playing handball, or reading Kierkegaard, Dave Parsons writes with a rugged and forthright honesty, with an open-hearted freshness, with the true voice of feeling. It behooves us to listen."—Edward Hirsch

"Energy and exuberance—Texas virtues—mark these new poems by Dave Parsons. Editing Sky is exactly their challenge: to bring into narrative focus the immediacy of their celebrations and concerns; to bring down to scale the size of the ambition they place on the moment. At their best, Parsons' poems make a kind of country city music of the language of this longing."—Stanley Plumly

DAVID M. PARSONS holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He was the recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities Dante Fellowship to the State University of New York (Geneseo) and the French/American Legation Poetry Prize. He is founder of the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council's Writers in Performance Series and has served on the Conroe Commission on Arts and Culture for the past six years, two years as chairman. Parsons has three grown children and lives in Conroe, Texas, with extended family members and his daughter Allison and wife, Nancy, an award-winning fine artist and graphic designer.

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Editing Sky
1-881515-23-0 cloth
$20.00
1-881515-24-9 paper
$12.00

5 1/2x8 1/2. 70 pp.

Available in March 2000

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