Robert Pack was born in New York City. He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1951 and M.A. from Columbia University in 1953. Pack has participated in the Poetry Workshop of the New School for Social Research and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has also been editor of Discovery magazine. He has received a Fulbright fellowship (1956), a National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant (1957), a Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards first prize (1964), and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1968). Married to Patricia Powell, Pack has taught at Barnard College and is currently professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Pack's fidelity to traditional poetic conventions marks his as a distinct voice among contemporary American poets. For a quarter of a century, while others have turned to experimentation and escape, Pack has continued to write a quiet, orderly, almost peaceable poetry. His measured phrases; his subtle...