The poet's first published collection of his search for connections and meaningin today's fast-paced, fragmentary world.
Kendall Dunkelberg (1962- ) is a poet and teacher who lives with his wife, son, and their dog in a 100-year-old house, where he enjoys letting wildflowers grow in the yard and watching the spring and fall migrations of birds. His favorite flowers are spider lilies and spiderwort, and his favorite birds are cardinals and red-wing blackbirds, or maybe grackles and mocking birds, depending on his mood.
Dunkelberg was born and raised in Osage, Iowa. Prior to moving to Columbus, Mississippi, he lived in Galesburg and Chicago, Illinois; Ghent and Leuven, Belgium; Northfield, Minnesota; and Austin, Texas. He earned his BA in English/Creative Writing from Knox College, and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Mellon Fellowship and and two Fulbright grants to study and teach in Belgium. Besides his own poetry, he has published many translations of Dutch poetry and fiction. He directs the Creative Writing concentration and the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women, where he is Professor of English, teaching Creative Writing, World Literature, and Twentieth-Century Poetry.
