In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations - Paperback

by Marianne Boruch (Author)

A noted poet explores poetry, the writing life, and the poetic imagination

Author Biography

Marianne Boruch's poetry collections include The Book of Hours and Grace, Fallen from. Her eighth--Cadaver, Speak. In addition to In the Blue Pharmacy she's written Poetry's Old Air and a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler. Among her awards are Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright/Visiting Professorship at the University of Edinburgh, fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center and Isle Royale National Park. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Paris Review, the American Poetry Review, the Yale Review, and the London Review of Books. She teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College.