Born in Austria in 1943, I moved with my family to France in 1955, before coming permanently to the U.S..  As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania (1962-66) I worked on the campus literary magazine, The Pennsylvania Review, which I co-edited in my junior year. I was a Thouron British-American Exchange Fellow for two years at Cambridge University and completed my Ph.D. in English at Harvard in 1972. I joined the English Department at the State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo, retiring in 2016 as Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Emeritus. 

 I have published poems in a variety of little and literary magazines over the past six decades. In addition to Walking Through the Four Seasons I have two collections in print: Fool’s Gold: Selected Poems of a Decade (2008) and Asssorted Selfscriptings ( 2015). I have also published five scholarly books and some fifty articles in academic journals in the areas of Romanticism and Autobiography studies. My translation of Goethe’s FAUST, Part I appeared in 2019, and True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays was published in 2023. 

Walking Through the Four Seasons: An Impromptu Poetry Journal is an experiment in which I took up the challenge of writing poems every few days in his walks in the countryside of Western New York over the course of an entire year, to comprehend and complete the full circle or cycle of the seasons. What this collection seeks to trace is the geography of a reflective mind in touch with the natural world and itself.

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