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He was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania , and brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania . He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970. He was awarded a doctorate by the University Of St. Andrews in 1975. He taught at Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1982.

As Of 2005 he teaches at Middlebury College . He is married to the writer Devon Jersild .

He has been appointed Literary Executor to the still-living ( As Of 2005 ) Gore Vidal .


WORKS


  • Singing in Time (1972) poems

  • Theodore Roethke, an American Romantic (1979)

  • The Love Run (1980) novel

  • Richard Eberhart : A Celebration (1980) editor with Sydney Lea, Robin M. Barone

  • Anthracite Country (1982) poems

  • Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (1985) editor with Robert Pack and Sydney Lea

  • The Patch Boys (1986)

  • An Invitation to Poetry (1987)

  • The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Short Stories (1987) editor with Robert Pack

  • A Vermont Christmas (1988)

  • Town Life (1988) poems

  • Transitions: From Literature to Literacy (1988) with Robert Pack

  • The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays (1989) editor with Robert Pack

  • The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year (1990)

  • Richard Eberhart, New and Selected Poems 1930 – 1990 (1990) editor

  • Writers On Writing (1991) with Robert Pack

  • Bay of Arrows (1992) novel

  • Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain (1992) editor

  • Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry (1993) editor with Robert Pack

  • John Steinbeck (1995)

  • American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (1996) editor with Robert Pack

  • Benjamin's Crossing (1996) novel

  • Touchstones : American Poets on a Favorite Poem (1996) editor with Robert Pack

  • Some Necessary Angels (1997) essays

  • Beyond "The Godfather" : Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience (1997) editor with A. Kenneth Ciongoli

  • Columbia History of American Poetry From the Puritans to Our Time (1998)

  • House of Days (1998) poems

  • The Norton Book of American Autobiography (1998) editor

  • Introspections : American Poets on One of Their Own Poems (1998) editor with Robert Pack

  • Robert Frost: A Biography (1999)

  • American Writers (2000) editor

  • American Writers Classics I (2002), II (2004)

  • Apprentice Lover (2002) novel

  • British Writers (2002) editor

  • Contemporary Poetry Of New England (2002) editor with Robert Pack

  • Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America (2002) with A. Kenneth Ciongoli

  • British Writers Classics (2003) editor

  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. (2003) editor

  • World Writers in English (2003) editor

  • Anthony Quinn's Eye (2004) with Donald Kuspit and Tom Roberts

  • One Matchless Time : A Life of William Faulkner (2004)

  • Rear View: Stories (2004) with Peter Duval

  • The Art of Teaching (2004)

  • The Art of Subtraction (2005) poems

  • Visiting Frost: Poems Inspired By The Life And Work Of Robert Frost (2005) with Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro

  • The Shorter Wadsworth Anthology Of Poetry

  • The Wadsworth Anthology Of Poetry

  • Then What Did You Do?, editor with Robert Pack



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