Waterborne (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Gregerson
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Nature, Midwest, Women, Rivers or waterways, Renaissance, Learning or scholarship, Illinois, Gifts
Linda Gregerson is an Illinois-born poet and Renaissance literature scholar who teaches at the University of Michigan; she has both an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Gregerson’s poetry in this collection has some similarity to that of Anne Carson, classics scholar and poet, in that it expresses and reflects the writer’s scholarly interests yet remains powerfully expressive poetry with a distinctive style and voice. Gregerson’s earlier collections, Fire in the Conservatory (1982) and The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996),...
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