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Winner of the sixth annual May Swenson Poetry Award, The Owl Question underscores and relishes life's transitions from young girl to woman, from child to wife to mother, and from isolation to connection this poet's bright sense of abundance and awe, here expressed in finely tuned detail and refreshingly open observation, reads like a collective memory. Though private and closely held, these questionings are as familiar as our own souls, and in their transformation to poetry, Shearin has created the very "map" she wishes to guide her when she "can't learn the world fast enough."

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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. CONTENTS
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Foreword
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  1. Piano Lesson
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  1. Homecoming
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  1. Luck
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  1. Childhood
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  1. Entropy
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  1. Puberty
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  1. Ruins
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  1. The Owl Question
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  1. What I Like
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  1. Rescue
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  1. Numbers
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  1. Retriever
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  1. Invitation
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  1. Matrimony
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  1. Engaged
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  1. After the Wedding
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  1. Lust
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  1. Desire
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  1. Pandora
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  1. The Post Office
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  1. The Unexpectant
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  1. Our Story
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  1. The Name of a Fish
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  1. Magic
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  1. Frogs
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  1. Counting
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  1. Innocence
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  1. The Sinking
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  1. Will
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  1. My Portrait
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  1. Fields
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  1. Fingerprint of the Voice
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  1. Summer
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  1. Flat World
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  1. Hunger
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  1. Love
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  1. Becoming Mother
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  1. Childbirth Revisited
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  1. Opera
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  1. On Halloween
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  1. Ashes, Ashes
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  1. Shopping
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  1. Alone
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  1. Spring Fever
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  1. About the Author
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  1. The May Swenson Poetry Award
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