John Barr is president of the Poetry Foundation and has served on the board of the Poetry Society of America. He has also taught in the Graduate Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College. The Hundred Fathom Curve (2001) from Red Hen Press is his latest book, in which Barr chronicles the search for an American identity from the Vietnam War to 9/11. The poems, drawn from five previous collections and published over 40 years, include Barr's eyewitness accounts as a Navy veteran of Vietnam, and as a New Yorker who was present at 9/11. They explore the boundary of what is human with all that is not, and find things never to be as they seem. They follow the journey from nature into art, and the efforts of the artist to discover what it means to be human. Refreshments will be served.
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