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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ed Roberson is the author of When Thy King Is a Boy (1970), Etai-eken (1975), Lucid Interval as Integral Music (1984), Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In (1995, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize), Just in Word of Navigational Change: New and Selected Work (1998), Atmosphere Conditions (2000, National Poetry Series winner), and City Eclogue (2006). He has received the Lila Wallace–Readers Digest Writer’s Award, and was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2000. In 2008 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Roberson has worked as a limnologist (conducting research on inland and coastal fresh water systems in Alaska ’s Aleutian Islands and in Bermuda), as a diver for the Pittsburgh Aquazoo, in an advertising graphics agency, and in the Pittsburgh steel mills. As twice team member of the Explorer’s Club of Pittsburgh South American Expeditions, he has climbed mountains in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes and explored the upper Amazon jungle. He has taught at Columbia College Chicago, the University of Chicago, and currently teaches at Northwestern University. ...

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