Publisher's Synopsis
Ken's poetry has been compared to Robert Lowell's, and distinguished poet William Meredith has said that Ken has "a splendid and various [poetic] gift." His previous work includes: The Ghosts - Notes from a Field Study; Grand Canyon Days; New Mexico Notebook; Searching for Mr. Stevens; The Structure of the Body; Vermeer in Words; Time After Time - a Novel in Verse; 50 Years - Poems for My Wife; The Ratlue Diaries (a memoir); and several plays, including The Dancing Apsárás, or Captain Willard's Blues, a prequel/sequel to the film Apocalypse Now. He has received a Hopwood Poetry Award, an American Academy of Poets Prize, a Shubert Playwriting Fellowship, and has taught literature and creative writing at four universities, as well as working as a mayor's aide for economic development in St. Louis, an assistant dean at the University of Arizona, and a grass-roots environmental activist.
