New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011 (Red Hen Press) is culled from Robert Sward's newest and best works, including both previously unpublished poems and selections from his 20+ books of poetry. It is the definitive Sward collection, exhibiting throughout his signature style: outwardly zany and fanciful, but inwardly serious, troubled and questioning. They cover the territory Sward has covered so well--love, divorce, multiple marriage, aging, loss, and the challenge of bringing up children in a highly unstable world...
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New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011 (Red Hen Press) is culled from Robert Sward's newest and best works, including both previously unpublished poems and selections from his 20+ books of poetry. It is the definitive Sward collection, exhibiting throughout his signature style: outwardly zany and fanciful, but inwardly serious, troubled and questioning. They cover the territory Sward has covered so well--love, divorce, multiple marriage, aging, loss, and the challenge of bringing up children in a highly unstable world...
Born on the Jewish North Side of Chicago,bar mitzvahed, sailor, amnesiac, university professor (Cornell, Iowa, Connecticut College), newspaper editor, food reviewer, father of five children, husband to four wives, my writing career has been described by critic Virginia Lee as a "long and winding road."