About the Author: Richard Eberhart is Honorary President of the Poetry Society of America and has been Poet-in-Residence at Dartmouth College since 1956. He has won several awards for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and the National Book Award, and his books include The Quarry, Shifts of Being, Fields of Grace, Florida Poems, Ways of Light, and Collected Poems, 1930-1986.