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A new compilation of poetry by an award-winning poet and author of Waterborne reassesses the interconnections among history, science, and art, in a collection that deals with such diverse topics as the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Nobel Prize in physiology, a child's cleft palate, and an exhibit of modern art.

LINDA GREGERSON is the author of Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, and Fire in the Conservatory. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at the University of Michigan. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry as well as in the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, the Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications.
Among her many awards and honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award.