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Synopsis
Winner of the Castagnola Award from PSA. A 12-part narrative poem about the adventures of John Mitchell, a lieutenant in the Civil War, and his daughter, Maggie. Lt. John Mitchell was a POW who helped engineer the famous escape from Libby Prison; he then went on to help settle the West.
About the Author
David Mason was co-winner of the 1991 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize with his book, The Buried Houses. His second book, The Country I Remember, won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award in 1996. With Mark Jarman, he edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, which is now in its fourth printing, and in 2002 he issued his collection of essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry. He teaches at Colorado College.