Rosanna Warren

Rosanna Warren is the author of Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, Departure, and Ghost in a Red Hat. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. With irony, in mourning tinged with eros, Rosanna Warren blends the personal and the political to meditate on damage, aging, and injustice. The poems in So Forth (W. W. Norton & Company) surge back in memory, pondering guilt and forgiveness. Consciousness flows from singular to plural. Identity in these poems does a round dance with other personae. In response to griefs both historical and contemporary, So Forth contemplates the quest for the holy and traditions of the sacred. Katie Peterson, author of A Piece of Good News, praised it as ” a book of love and war, rich with poems of desire and rage, situated in our nearly unbearable historical moment, alive to its challenges and pleasures. Rosanna Warren uses passion and calculation in equal measure to grapple with an uncertain future.”