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B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Columbia University. Poet and essayist. Eight volumes of poetry, including Or to Begin Again (2009; nominated for a National Book Award); Hum (2005); If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 (2001). Essays collected in The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (2005). Visiting core critic (sculpture), Yale Graduate School of the Arts. Recipient, MacArthur Fellowship (1993); Guggenheim Fellowship (1986). David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard since 1997.