Talking Back to the Exterminator

Daniel Bourne was raised on a farm near the Little Wabash River in southeastern Illinois. He has worked in a tree nursery and rare book library, and traveled often to Poland, including as a Fulbright fellow for translation in 1985-87. Before retiring in 2020, he was professor of English at The College of Wooster in Ohio, where he edited the literary magazine Artful Dodge. The author of two previous books of poetry, his poetry and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Guernica, Salmagundi, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, and The Yale Review.