The Ninth of Ab

John Hollander

1965

August is flat and still, with ever-thickening green
 Leaves, clipped in their richness; hoarse sighs in
  the grass,
   Moments of mowing, mark out the
    lengthening summer. The ground
We children play on, and toward which maples
 tumble their seed.
Reaches beneath us all, back to the sweltering City:
Only here can it never seem yet a time to…
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Creator Bio

John Hollander

1929–2013
Born in New York City, John Hollander was a poet, critic, editor, scholar, and translator who served as Sterling professor of English at Yale University. He also wrote children’s literature and libretti. Hollander received the Bollingen Prize for poetry as well as fellowships from the MacArthur foundation, the National Foundation for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Hollander’s translations of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern are especially prized.

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