F26-01 Nature Poetry
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Nature is a steady gleam in poets’ eyes. Shakespeare’s plays ring with human voices in fairy woods. The Romantics were woken to deep truths by glowering mountains and groaning tides. Nature still talks to poets -- Hardy, Frost, Bishop, Plath, and Stevens. Reading these poems is like visiting your old neighborhood, both strange and achingly familiar.
Don Barkin MA
Don Barkin received his BA from Harvard College and his MA. in English literature from Cambridge U. He has taught undergraduate seminars in poetry and prose writing at Yale for several years, and at Wesleyan's Graduate Liberal Studies Program. He has published three books of poems that have also appeared in national magazines, and is a former schoolteacher and newspaper reporter