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Robert Wrigley

Robert Wrigley teaches at the University of Idaho. His Reign of Snakes (Penguin, 1999) won the 2000 Kingsley Tufts Award, and Lives of the Animals (Penguin, 2003) received the Poets’ Prize for 2005. His most recent book is Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006).

Articles

• A Rumor of Bears

  The truck’s heater gasped a damp, phantom dog
  into the cab, redolent of rain-soaked wool.
  Its choke and vent was anything but warm.

   

  The day had faded dull—gray sun, gray rain.
  Even the slim college girls walking by
  wore fat coats the color of wildebeests,

   

  and the aging dour professors limping
  among them were plainly no threat at all.
  I should have known it would be like this, come

   

  as I had from the bears...

• Hailstorm in the Mountains

  A poem by Robert Wrigley