Robert Pack

Author of New Poets of England and America

About the Author

Robert Pack is an Abernethy Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Emeritus at Middlebury College, where he taught for thirty-four years and also directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has taught at the Honors College of the University of Montana for the past sixteen years.

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Bread Loaf Anthologies

Works by Robert Pack

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New Poets of England and America (1957) — Editor — 101 copies, 1 review

Writers on Writing (1991) — Editor — 93 copies, 1 review

Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems (Bread Loaf Anthology) (1997) 37 copies, 1 review

Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Bread Loaf Anthology) (1996) 34 copies

The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (1985) 26 copies

The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays (1989) 23 copies

Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry (Bread Loaf Anthology) (1993) 22 copies, 1 review

Faces in a Single Tree: A Cycle of Monologues (1984) 15 copies

Clayfeld Rejoices, Clayfeld Laments: A Sequence of Poems (1987) 13 copies

Poems of doubt and belief; an anthology of modern religious poetry (1964) — Editor — 12 copies

The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Short Stories (1987) 11 copies

Waking to My Name: New and Selected Poems (1980) 10 copies

Before it vanishes : a packet for Professor Pagels (1989) 10 copies

Rounding It Out: A Cycle of Sonnetelles (1999) 9 copies

Affirming Limits: Essays on Mortality, Choice, and Poetic Form (1985) 9 copies

Elk in Winter (2004) 8 copies

Still here, still now (2008) 8 copies

Contemporary Poetry of New England (2002) 8 copies

Keeping Watch (1976) 7 copies

Minding the Sun (1996) 7 copies

How To Catch a Crocodile (1964) 7 copies

Edward Bennett Williams for the defense (1983) 6 copies

American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (1994) — Editor — 5 copies

Jerry Brown, the philosopher-prince (1978) 5 copies

Clayfeld Holds On (2015) 5 copies

Laughter Before Sleep (2011) 5 copies

Fathering the Map: New and Selected Later Poems (1993) 5 copies

Nothing but light (1972) 4 copies

Home from the cemetery (1969) 4 copies

Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost (2003) 4 copies

To Love That Well: New and Selected Poems, 1954-2013 (2013) 4 copies

The Long View: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic Craft (1991) 3 copies

Then What Did You Do? (1961) 3 copies

Willing to Choose: Volition & Storytelling in Shakespeare's Major Plays (2011) 2 copies

Composing voices : a cycle of dramatic monologues (2005) 2 copies

Mozart's Librettos (1967) 2 copies

The Forgotten Secret. Illustrated By Nola Langner 2 copies

A stranger's privilege 1 copy

Wallace Stevens: An Approach to His Poetry and Thought (1967) 1 copy

All one breath : poems (2019) 1 copy

Literature For Composition On The Theme Of Innocence And Experience 1 copy

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Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (2007) — Contributor — 95 copies, 2 reviews

A Controversy of Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, (1965) — Contributor — 83 copies

Speaking Out: The Reagan Presidency from Inside the White House (1988) 62 copies

Run, Bullet, Run: The Rise, Fall, and Recovery of Bob Hayes (1990) 10 copies

Critical Essays on Galway Kinnell (1996) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Birthdate: 1929-05-19
Gender: male
Education: Dartmouth College (BA, 1951)
Columbia University (MA, 1953)
Occupations: poet
professor
Organizations: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Awards and honors: American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1957)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Award (Literature, 1957)
Borestone Mountain Poetry Award (first prize, 1964)
National Council for the Arts award
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map): New York, USA

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4 reviews

marck 24 reviews

Writers on Writing (Bread Loaf Anthology) by Robert Pack

NOTE: The other two reviews that appear in this section are reviewing a DIFFERENT collection of essays called "Writers On Writing." LibraryThing has incorrectly linked this 1991 collection with the 2002 Collection from the NY Times imprint "Times Books." Please note this! (I'm trying to get LibraryThing to correct this.)

This oldish (1991) collection of essays from writers and poets is very hit-and-miss. For me, a writer less interested in poetry, I found myself getting bogged down in the show more poetry analysis/methodology pieces. (Though one of the essays directs specifically that writers of prose SHOULD be reading poetry for the purposes of considering word economy, and so I just might have to reconsider.) And even several of the prose-related essays got bogged down in literary ephemera that seemed like it had less to do with writing. But a few of the essays hit home -- especially a fun one on prolificacy, which was good for a chuckle and also made me feel like a slug for not pouring out novels at the rate of Balzac and Dickens. I would only recommend this collection to the hardest-core writer, one who has already slogged through the more common how-to books (Carol Bly, John Gardner, Janet Burroway, Anne Lamott, etc.). show less

Mar 11, 2009

LibroLindsay 1,020 reviews

Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems (Bread Loaf Anthology) by Robert Pack

Just OK. I had a hankering last month to revisit some of the unfinished poetry books from my undergraduate life--over the years, I'd revisited a couple of the poems/essays here that were used in classes, though going through this now, I realize perhaps my professor had cherry-picked the best ones. There were a few more that struck my fancy, but for the most part, the charm of poets explaining their work grew thin, and I skimmed more than a few. Ah well. Onward and upward!

Jun 18, 2021

andreasaria 28 reviews

Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry (A Bread Loaf Anthology) by Robert Pack