B.H. Fairchild -- Reading 1 comments

Fairchild's poetry, like the prairie, is deceptively simple and open, but the subtleties and variations are there for the attentive reader to savor and sift through. He is equally at home writing poems about the working class world of his youth (he's been compared to the painter Edward Hopper) and timeless philosophical and theological questions. Fairchild's faith is not something proclaimed; it is something inhabited. We're delighted to see that he's being recognized, with a series of awards and honors, as the literary treasure he is.

B.H. Fairchild was born in Houston, Texas and, as well as Houston, was raised in small towns in west Texas, Oklahoma, and southwest Kansas. His poems have appeared in Southern Review, Poetry, Hudson Review, Yale Review, Paris Review, The New Yorker, Sewanee Review, and many other journals and in several anthologies, including The Best American Poems of 2000. 

These poems were recorded at the 2009 Glen Workshop.

Bibliography

Poetry

• Flight (Devil's Millhopper, 1985)

• The Arrival of the Future (Swallow's Tale, 1985)

• The System of Which the Body Is One Part (State Street, 1988)
  

• The Art of the Lathe (Alice James, 1998)

• Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (W. W. Norton, 2003)
• Usher (W. W. Norton, 2009)

Literary Criticism

• Local Knowledge (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1991)
  
• Such Holy Song, Music as Idea, Form, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake (Kent State, 1980)