Constant Longing (Carnegie Mellon Poetry) - Softcover

DENNIS SAMPSON was born in South Dakota and graduated from South Dakota State University. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1976. His first book, The Double Genesis, was published in 1985; his second, Forgiveness, in 1991. He has lived and taught throughout the southern and eastern United States, in Virginia, where he held the position of Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence from 1996 to 1998 at Sweet Briar College, and in Alabama and Louisiana. He is Visiting Poet at Wake Forest University.