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Below The Surface |
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The fourth book by one of the leading formalist poets of our day revels in Frostian wit—he teaches at Mount Holyoke College near Frost’s (and Dickinson’s) beloved Amherst—and devilish wordplays that, guilty surface pleasures as they are, nevertheless point to depths only such a dazzling way with words could unearth. |
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“Few American poets today write so well as does Robert B. Shaw.” |
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About the Author |
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Robert B. Shaw has published three previous collections of poems. A critic as well as a poet, he has also published a book of Donne and Herbert, together with numerous articles on twentieth-century poets, and his awards include the James Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the NEA. He teaches at Mount Holyoke College. |
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