Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
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"Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow" is a poem by Orson Scott Card.
It appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror.
Card originally published this poem in the August 1989 issue of Sunstone magazine.
In (1981) "Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow" won first prize in the long serious poem category at the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts.
This epic poem was the basis for Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series.
This poem is about a young blacksmith's apprentice named Alvin.
One day when there wasn't much work to do the blacksmith told Alvin to go into the woods to look for berries.
In the woods Alvin meets a red-winged bird that makes a "maker" out of him.
When he goes back to the blacksmith's shop he tries to make a horseshoe with the blacksmith's help.
However, he is unable to strike the metal with the hammer to bend it.
