These poems, written over fifty years, address such subjects as the celerity of time, old age, art, literary acquaintances, and the authors beloved New England landscape. They delight in sound and form, even as they unsettle and disturb.
Marie Borroffis Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University. She is both an accomplished scholar and the author of eloquent verse translations ofSir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience,andPearl.Her poems have appeared in theNew Republicand theAmerican Scholar.