“Wrigley’s work… is finally a poet’s autobiography, and the very best book of its kind that I’ve ever read.”
—Stephen Dunn
“Moving and mesmerizing” —Lisa Low in Lit Pub
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“Wrigley’s work… is finally a poet’s autobiography, and the very best book of its kind that I’ve ever read.”
—Stephen Dunn
“Moving and mesmerizing” —Lisa Low in Lit Pub
Click here to download a complimentary suite of curricular resources.
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About The Author
Robert Wrigley has published eleven books of poetry, including In the Bank of Beautiful Sins, which won the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award; Reign of Snakes, which won the Kingsley Tufts Award; Lives of the Animals, which won the Poets’ Prize; and Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems, which won a Pacific Northwest Book Award. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Idaho Commission on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. A former Distinguished Professor at the University of Idaho, he lives in the woods near Moscow, Idaho, with his wife, the writer Kim Barnes.
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Robert Wrigley has published eleven books of poetry, including In the Bank of Beautiful Sins, which won the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award; Reign of Snakes, which won the Kingsley Tufts Award; Lives of the Animals, which won the Poets’ Prize; and Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems, which won a Pacific Northwest Book Award. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Idaho Commission on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. A former Distinguished Professor at the University of Idaho, he lives in the woods near Moscow, Idaho, with his wife, the writer Kim Barnes.
Jeffrey is the author of three books of poetry: At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered (Salmon Press February 2019), Rumor of Cortez, nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times Literary Award in Poetry, Mortal, Everlasting, which won the 2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize. His many poetry prizes include the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Ekphrasis Poetry Prize, and the American Literary Review poetry prize. His poems have garnered 21 Pushcart nominations. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Levine is founder, Artistic Director, and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award‐winning independent literary press located in the historic NORAD Mill in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts.