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This collection of poems captures the life and brilliance of one of racings biggest legends. In a lyrical style that brings the tale of Secretariat to life, Lifshin highlights the beauty and wonder of the foal’s early days from birth to the track. As always, Lifshin focuses on Secretariat’s life before the track, outlining the playfully perfect foal who found his way into the hearts of many. Full of emotion and beauty, this collection outlines the life and death of one of the tracks biggest racing legends. from “As The Days Get Longer” the horse dreams of flying in the air like a gust of wind on an abandoned Christmas tree, red exploding like a spurt of light, flaming wildly like those boughs of northern lights out of darkness

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Lyn Lifshin's portrait of the great horse Secretariat is tender, powerful, moving and wondrous as she follows his birth, colthood, shining career and forced retirement as gently as a mother singing a lullaby to her child and as proudly as if Secretariat were her own, with an added gifted flair for the mixture of discipline and wild abandon and joy that was his in running. Ensconced in her poetry, this miracle of speed and grace and intelligence will continue to live on in the hearts of every reader, even those who usually don't read poetry, as her writing is both beautiful and accessible. Lifshin's Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle is a book that will be remembered as much as the great Secretariat himself. --Christina Zawadiwsky This full arc of life--bigger than imagination in a raging fire--is set on paper by a poet obsessed with beauty, hooves, and the passion of flight. In Lifshin's language, spare yet metaphorically profound, we enter into that animal grace that only a true poet can convey, as we race on from poem to poem, joining Secretariat in triumph-- 'not for a win but a coronation.' --Laura Chester

"""Lyn Lifshin's portrait of the great horse Secretariat is tender, powerful, moving and wondrous as she follows his birth, colthood, shining career and forced retirement as gently as a mother singing a lullaby to her child and as proudly as if Secretariat were her own, with an added gifted flair for the mixture of discipline and wild abandon and joy that was his in running. Ensconced in her poetry, this miracle of speed and grace and intelligence will continue to live on in the hearts of every reader, even those who usually don't read poetry, as her writing is both beautiful and accessible. Lifshin's Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle is a book that will be remembered as much as the great Secretariat himself."" --Christina Zawadiwsky ""This full arc of life--bigger than imagination in a raging fire--is set on paper by a poet obsessed with beauty, hooves, and the passion of flight. In Lifshin's language, spare yet metaphorically profound, we enter into that animal grace that only a true poet can convey, as we race on from poem to poem, joining Secretariat in triumph-- 'not for a win but a coronation.'"" --Laura Chester"

This full arc of life--bigger than imagination in a raging fire--is set on paper by a poet obsessed with beauty, hooves, and the passion of flight. In Lifshin's language, spare yet metaphorically profound, we enter into that animal grace that only a true poet can convey, as we race on from poem to poem, joining Secretariat in triumph-- 'not for a win but a coronation.' --Laura Chester

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Patterson Prize winner LYN LIFSHIN is the author of over 140 books, including the equine books, The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian, Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle, and Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness.

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