Creator Bio
Allen Grossman
1932–2014
Allen Grossman was a postmodern poet born in Minneapolis. He taught at Brandeis University and was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Grossman earned three Pushcart Prizes, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Bassine Citation from the Academy of American Poets, and Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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I Am in Babylon Dying
The bell pursues me. It is time to die.
It is the hour when no man works. I feel
My time fill up with leaves like a dry well
With many autumns over it, leaves that I
Leave to sigh in the ears of my…
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Words Taken to Heart: Four Answers to One Question
You Will Be Wrapped in Silk
“And how do you merit to live so long?”
—Because I know there is need to consider.
At my birth someone said, “He will be wrapped
in silk.” And now the guests are…