Barbara Claire Freeman is a literary critic and professor of literature who has recently turned her full attention to writing poetry. She is the author of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction (University of California Press), among other works of criticism. Formerly an Associate Professor of English at Harvard, she teaches creative writing in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Colorado Review, CrazyHorse, DENVER QUARTERLY, Harvard Review, Lau...