A Keeper of Sheep

Author's Bio:

Born and raised in New England, William Carpenter earned his B.A. from Dartmouth and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He began publishing poetry in 1976 and four years later won the Associated Writing Program’s Contermporary Poetry Award. In 1985 he received the Samuel French Morse Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Carpenter moved to Maine in 1972 to help found the College of the Atlantic, a school dedicated to human ecology and the environment, where he remains a faculty member. He lives with Donna Gold and their son, Daniel, in an old farmer inn on the Maine coast.

Quotes:

“Prose that manages to be unobtrusive and gorgeous at the same time.”—The New Yorker

“Clear, funny, and genuine.”—New York Newsday

“An astute, original piece of work which, at its best, shows us how a poetic vision can illuminate the world, making the ordinary extraordinary and finding beauty even in the discordant music of loss.”—The Washington Post Book World