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In Surface Impressions: A Poem by Stephen Sandy, the narrator moves through a widening landscape from New England to the cosmos itself, rumi-nating on the relation between his obsolescent, Romantic love of nature and the decline of wildness in our time.

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Louise Gluck was Vermont’s third State Poet. Born in New York City, she grew up on Long Island. Her works have won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award, and won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. She has also received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Glück teaches at Williams College. From her poem “Vespers”: “Once I believed in you; I planted a fig tree. / Here, in Vermont, country / of no summer. It was a test: if the tree lived, / it would mean you existed.”

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Grace Paley was born in New York City and attended Hunter College and New York University. she taught at Columbia and Syracuse University during the 1960s before becoming a teacher at Sarah Lawrence College. Although she is one of America’s best short story writers ( The Collected Stories 0-374-52431-9 ) , she began her writing career as a poet. Her stories and poems explore the lives of realistic characters, and her writing is deeply influenced by her lifelong work as a feminist and peace activist. She lives in New York City and Thetford, Vermont. As she told A.M. Homes in a Salon.com interview, when asked if writers have a moral obligation: “Oh, I think all human beings do. So if all human beings have it, then writers have some, too. I mean, why should they get off the hook? Whatever your calling is, whether it's as a plumber or an artist, you have to make sure there's a little more justice in the world when... read more>>>