John Balaban

Biography

John Balaban is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of American Poets’ Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and two nominations for the National Book Award. His Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems won the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2003, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

 

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POETRY / Summer 2003

Highway 61 Revisited

By John Balaban

Summer was flooding the city highways
bathing sycamores below the savage tenements,
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Summer 2003

Sotol

By John Balaban

Miles of barbed wire strung to the horizon
fencing cattle and their graze of greasewood
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