Robert Wrigley is the author of eleven books of poetry, including My Other Country (forthcoming from Penguin, 2017), and Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems (Penguin, 2013), which won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award in 2014. Other award-winning books by Wrigley from Penguin include Lives of the Animals (2003), which won the Poets’ Prize in 2004; Reign of Snakes (1999), which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2000; and In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (1995), which won the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award in 1996. A former Guggenheim Fellow and two-time National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Wrigley lives in the woods on Moscow Mountain, near Moscow, Idaho, where he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Idaho.  

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