Hailed by critics as a distonctive and powerful presence in contemporary American poetry, Michael S. Harper is an artist and a truth teller who tempers his astonishing technical virtuosity with a compassionate and healing vision. A keen observer and a potent commentator, Harper calls a complacent society vigorously to account while cradling the wounded and remembering the lost.

MICHAEL S. HARPER is University Professor and professor of English at Brown University. He has received the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America and other awards.

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