Poetry - Spring 2007

Five Poems

By John Hollander

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John Hollander is a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the current poet laureate of Connecticut. Author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and books, Hollander's honors include the Bollingen Prize, the Levinson Prize, and the MLA Shaughnessy Medal.