B. H. Fairchild

B. H. Fairchild is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including The Blue Buick and Usher. A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Bobbitt National Prize, he lives in California.

B. H. Fairchild

B. H. Fairchild is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including The Blue Buick and Usher. A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Bobbitt National Prize, he lives in California.

Awards

Winner — Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, 2004

Winner — California Book Award, 2002

Winner — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2002

Winner — Paterson Poetry Prize, 2015

Books by B. H. Fairchild

  • Local Knowledge: Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    Paperback, 2005

    An early collection by the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
  • Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    Paperback, 2004

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
  • Usher: Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    Hardback, 2009

    From Manhattan to the rural Midwest—one of our most distinguished poets offers a verbal cinema of America.
  • Usher: Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    Paperback, 2011

    "Meaty, maximalist, driven by narrative, [Fairchild] stakes out an American mythos."—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
  • The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    Paperback, 2016

    “[B. H. Fairchild] is the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic.”—The New York Times
  • The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    E Book, 2014

    “[B. H. Fairchild] is the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic.”—New York Times
  • An Ordinary Life: Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    Hardback, 2023

    A poet whose work is “a cause of celebration” (John Freeman, Boston Globe) reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary.
  • An Ordinary Life: Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    E Book

    A poet whose work is “a cause of celebration” (John Freeman, Boston Globe) reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary.
  • An Ordinary Life: Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    Paperback, 2024

    A poet whose work is "a cause of celebration" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary