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.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Ninth of Ab
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…