Where She Always Was (Swenson Poetry Award)

Eighth winner of the annual Swenson Poetry Award, this collection of poems reveals the hand of an accomplished poet on the page. In his Foreword to the volume, J.D. McClatchy speaks of the musical qualities of Frannie Lindsay's work: "It is impossible, reading her poems, not to hear a musical hand at work. This is not just a matter of delicacy or virtuosity. It is also a matter of knowing how to phrase a line. . . . Lindsay moves from detail to trope with utter poise, with an intuitive sense of what to sustain or emphasize. . . . Where She Always Was allows us . . . the rare gratification of watching a poet—wonderfully accomplished, quietly persuasive—look back on a lifetime's worth of emotions and calculate their bearing on the present. In her craft is the truth."