Dancer Fiction envy and art -- and

envy and art -- and Kildare Dobbs reveals every tantalizing detail in a meter that begs for recitation

Some poems even consider the tragic point when illness becomes identity

including earlier volumes in the Essential Poets series—The Essential Robert Gibbs and The Essential James Reaney—and the Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan

oral poetry

Dancer Fiction envy and art -- andDancer, Shelley Peterson, Hilary James (Mousie) is sixteen when she wins The Fuller Trophy jumping with her horse Dancer at the Royal Winter Fair. Her triumph is rewarded with an invitation to perform in England for Queen Elizabeth, but she has also attracted the unwanted attention of the evil Samuel Owens who plots to acquire Dancer for his niece, Sara. Thwarted in his initial attempt to purchase the horse, Owens has his hired man, Chad Smith, try to