About the Book:About the Author: Robert Pack is the Albernethy Professor of Literature and a Creative Writing Emeritus at Middlebury College, where he taught for thirty-four years and directed Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Currently he lives in Missoula and teaches at the Honors College of the University of Montana. He is author of eighteen books of poems, most recently, Fathering the Map, Minding the Sun, and Rounding It Out, all published by the University of Chicago Press.