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Jane Mead's collection of poetry, The Usable Field; will be out from Alice James Books in 2008. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry, House of Poured-Out Waters (Illinois Press, 2001) and The Lord and the General Din of the World (Sarabande Books, 1996). State Street Press published her long poem, A Truck Marked Flammable, as a chapbook in 1991. Her poems appear regularly in literary journals, and have been included in many anthologies. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, A Completion Grant from the Lannan Foundation, and a Whiting Writer's Award. For many years Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, she now teaches in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and manages a ranch in northern California.

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Anymore the rain that matters, anymore the thistle.
And never matter the word as a way of being for:
In the era of post-modern and maybe

the mammals still strike up friendships.
I let the vines cover these [ . . . ]

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