Robert Francis: Collected Prose

Rediscovering the quietly radical writing of a poet who chose simplicity, solitude, and contemplation over modern hasteAmerican author Robert Francis, whom Robert Frost called "the best neglected poet," lived in Amherst, Massachusetts from the 1920s to the 1980s. As an underappreciated but prolific poet, Francis authored eight poetry collections and received a number of prestigious prizes. Still, like many poets committed to their craft, he lived most of his quiet life at or well below the poverty level. To sustain himself financially, Francis turned to essay writing in popular magazines, such as the Christian Science Monitor and Forum. From 1938 to 1953, as America and the world experienced a period of intense modernization, he produced an invigorating, challenging, and enlightening quantity of prose whose quality should rank him alongside writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Wendell Berry, and Annie Dillard.Published in one volume for the first time, Robert Francis: Collected Prose invi