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Product Description Poetry. "What I like best about Robert Dana's poems is his uncompromising refusal to romanticize his own experience.. This is the real world crashing in on the real world" -Lowell Jaeger, High Plains Literary Review. Review ...expertly crafted and singular in it's vision, with a voice as honest and convincing as the old masters themselves. -- Kliatt Paperback Book Guide About the Author Robert Dana was born in Boston in 1929. After serving in the South Pacific at the end of World War II, he moved to Iowa where he attended Drake University and The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poetry has won several awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and The Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. Retired from teaching after forty years as Poet-in-Residence at Cornell College, he served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Stockholm University and at several American colleges and universities. Dana was named Poet Laureate for the state of Iowa. He passed away in 2010.