About the Author
Ted Genoways was educated at Nebraska Wesleyan University (B.A.), Texas Tech University (M.A.),and the University of Virginia (M.F.A.). He is the editor of The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández and the author of three chapbooks, most recently, Anna, washing. His poems have appeared in DoubleTake, New England Review, New Republic, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and twice received the Guy Owens Poetry Prize from Southern Poetry Review. Founding editor of the literary journal Meridian, he is an acquisitions editor at the Minnesota Historical Society Press. He lives in Minneapolis. Marilyn Hacker directs the masters' program in creative writing and literature at the City College of New York. She is the author of Presentation Piece, Assumptions, Going Back to the River, Selected Poems: 1965-1990, and Squares and Courtyards. She has received a Lamont Poetry Selection, a Lambda Literary Award, and the National Book Award. She lives in New York City and Paris.

Excerpted from Bullroarer : A Sequence (The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize) by Ted Genoways, Marilyn Hacker. Copyright © 2001. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
From the Foreword: In a language of visceral accuracy made concise and memorable by metric structure, Ted Genoways tells an American story that is also emblematic of a piece of American history-a history of expansion cruelly compressed by the Depression, a history of the movement from rural to urban to suburban life.