Drowned Lands

Paul Kane was born in the village of Cobleskill, in upstate New York. He received graduate degrees from Yale University and the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he was a Fulbright scholar. Kane has published a previous collection of poems, The Farther Shore; an edition of Emerson's collected poems; an anthology of nineteenth-century American poetry; a critical study of Australian poetry; and in collaboration with the photographer William Clift, A Hudson Landscape. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships, Kane is the poetry editor for Antipodes, and a professor of English at Vassar College. He lives with his wife, Tina, in Warwick, New York.