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AUTHORS

(1884-1933) born in St. Louis, Missouri & started publishing poems when she was 20yrs old.

Rivers to the Sea 1915, Bestseller.Love Songs 1918, won the Pulitzer

prize for poetry.“There Will Come Soft Rains”

produces the image of a world after humankind has been wiped out. Poem inspired Ray Bradbury.

1933 committed suicide

SARA TEASDALE

(1887-1959) Scottish man, journalist, novelist, translator, memoirist, and poet.

Family were poor farmers and when they lost the farm they moved to a big industrial town, he did not like the transition.

Pessimism towards modernity, industry, and technology. All show up in his later works bc of his ruined childhood (but aint that all of us?)

Wishes for the world to be a type of Garden of Eden

EDWIN MUIR

(1887-1962)one of California’s best known poets. He was kinda a controversial figure bc of his refusal to support the war eff ort, those who supported him before the war didn’t anymore.

His poems depict the stark beauty of California’s landscapes before and at the start of the massive mid twentieth century population explosion.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

Born 1950. American poet and the Boylston Professor at Harvard University teaching creative writing and literature courses.

Born to a privileged family. The Dream of a Unifi ed Field: Selected

Poems 1974-94 = won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1996.

Held the position of Chancellor of American Academy of Poets from 1997-2003.

Sea Change (2008) consists of a series of poems about the environment, global climate change, and the increasingly dire condition of the worlds oceans.

JORIE GRAHAM

Born 1958. Raised in New York, worked for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Published six books of poetry and has won the MacArthur Fellowship and a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize.

Very scientific

LUCIA PERILLO