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Today's poem is "In the Virgin Islands"
from Long for This World


University of Pittsburgh Press

Ronald Wallace is Felix Pollak Professor of Poety at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he codirects the creative writing program and serves as general editor for the University of Wisconsin Press poetry series. He is the author of eleven books, including the poetry collections The Making of Happiness, Time's Fancy, and The Uses of Adversity; the short story collect Quick Bright Things; and the critical study God Be With the Clown: Humor in American Poetry. He is married and has two grown daughters, and divides his time between Madison and a forty-acre farm in Bear Valley, Wisconsin.

About Long for This World:

"His poems ring with validity."
—Richard Hugo

"One of the best poets writing today."
—Robert Siegel, Wisconsin Academy Review

"Weds considerable formal command with grace, passion, intelligence, and wit."
Publishers Weekly

"Wallace takes his place with Mary Oliver and William Stafford as one of our pre-eminent poets with the ability to speak, like Whitman, of 'nature without check with original energy.'"
—David Citino, Prairie Schooner

"Garners, with compassion, candor, and affectionate attention . . . the grains that lend our lives their savor."
—Donald Finkel



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