<DIV><P>In <I>An Unkindness of Ravens</I>, Meg Kearney's poems weave voices of estrangement and redemption: mothers, daughters, lovers of gin and dead things. In the middle poems, the protagonist confronts "Raven": a figure of guises and disguises, revealing the speaker's fears and angst. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Donald Hall has written the Foreword.</P><p><B>Meg Kearney</B> is the Associate Director of the National Book Foundation. She was the recipient of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and <I>New York Times</I> fellowships and received the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Prize in 1998. She lives in New York City.</P></DIV>