Robert DeMott was born in Connecticut in 1943, and schooled there, as well as in Massachusetts and Ohio. His poetry appeared in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Windsor Review, The Texas Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Tar River Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Lake Effect, Boolaboo, Crazy River, Sheila-Na-Gig online, and elsewhere. He has published numerous books, including Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (a New York Times Notable Book), Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art (recipient of the Nancy Dasher Book Award), The Weather in Athens: Poems (recipient of the Ohioana Award), Angling Days: A Fly Fisher's Journals, and Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated. From 1969 to 2013 he taught at Ohio University, where he received half a dozen teaching awards. He serves on the editorial board of Steinbeck Review, and directorial board of Quarter After Eight, a literary journal. He lives in Athens, Ohio, with Kate Fox, poet and editor.
Robert DeMott was born in Connecticut in 1943, and schooled there, as well as in Massachusetts and Ohio. His poetry appeared in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Windsor Review, The Texas Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Tar River Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Lake Effect, Boolaboo, Crazy River, Sheila-Na-Gig online, and elsewhere. He has published numerous books, including Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (a New York Times Notable Book), Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art (recipient of the Nancy Dasher Book Award), The Weather in Athens: Poems (recipient of the Ohioana Award), Angling Days: A Fly Fisher's Journals, and Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated. From 1969 to 2013 he taught at Ohio University, where he received half a dozen teaching awards. He serves on the editorial board of Steinbeck Review, and directorial board of Quarter After Eight, a literary journal. He lives in Athens, Ohio, with Kate Fox, poet and editor.
Robert DeMott was born in Connecticut in 1943, and schooled there, as well as in Massachusetts and Ohio. His poetry appeared in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Windsor Review, The Texas Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Tar River Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Lake Effect, Boolaboo, Crazy River, Sheila-Na-Gig online, and elsewhere. He has published numerous books, including Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (a New York Times Notable Book), Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art (recipient of the Nancy Dasher Book Award), The Weather in Athens: Poems (recipient of the Ohioana Award), Angling Days: A Fly Fisher's Journals, and Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated. From 1969 to 2013 he taught at Ohio University, where he received half a dozen teaching awards. He serves on the editorial board of Steinbeck Review, and directorial board of Quarter After Eight, a literary journal. He lives in Athens, Ohio, with Kate Fox, poet and editor. Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is currently Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. Her chapbook What the Grimm Girl Looks Forward To appears from Finishing Line Press (2016), and poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Rattle, Slant, Spillway, Chiron Review, Verse Virtual and many other journals. Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light from Main Street Rag Publishing Company (2018) is her first full-length collection.
In "The Year Dylan Went Electric" from Up Late Reading Birds of America by Robert DeMott, we are asked to "Ride that beast, bucko: no more Mister Nice Guy for you, not then anyway in full fret and frenzied throb of your bully machine, never again let sleeping dogs lie. Not you. Not ever." DeMott's poems unbury the singular in the Many--thus the allusion to Audubon whose work involved the sacrifice of subject-birds. These poems don't go easy on a world we prize for its winged bodying of Spirit. It is timely, commanding work for which we should be grateful. --Roy Bentley finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize for Walking with Eve in the Loved CityWith a generous formal genius, in a limpid voice that never bullies but rather accompanies the reader like a swath of light on the living room floor, Robert DeMott gifts us a gorgeous new collection of revelatory, time-traversing poems that transcend fad or trend. Each perfectly crafted 'descent' is a luminous moment we fall through but DeMott's sure hands are always there to catch us. These poems dedicate every word, every sacred pore, to what is here, and in so doing serve as lasting reminders that the present is, as Gerald Vizenor said, "a wild season, not a ruse." --Chris Dombrowski author of Body of Water and Ragged AnthemRobert DeMott is a master of compression and lucidity, so I'm not surprised that his new collection resonates with such power. It is a brilliant, passionate, and deeply considered reminder to us to give our full attention to the world and to take a stand against the forces of greed that would destroy it. It is up to us, after all, to decide if "nothing matters, or everything does." --Jerry Dennis author of The Windward Shore and A Place on the Water RobertDeMott's Up Late Reading Birds of America displays a deep caring for the world and its countless wonders, whether animal, mineral, firefly, or the unexpected movement of clouds in an autumn sky. DeMott's habit of seeing deeply rewards us on every page, offering up evocative, passionate moments from a well-considered life. You will stay up late, too, savoring this book of generosity and remarkable beauty. --Dinty W. Moore Director of Creative Writing, Ohio University, and Editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction.
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