Early and Late Selected Poems

Mr. Petersen was born in Minneapolis and studied at Carleton College with Arthur Mizener, Reed Whittemore, and others, spent a year at the Sorbonne, and later, at the Poetry Workshop of the University of Iowa, studied with Paul Engle, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Karl Shapiro. During two summers at the Indiana School of Letters he studied with John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Randall Jarrell, and Delmore Schwartz. His poems have appeared since the early 1950s in Poetry, Furioso, the Paris Review, and The New Criterion. He has taught at Iowa and is now professor emeritus at the State University of New York at OneontaPetersen, Donald is the author of 'Early and Late Selected Poems' with ISBN 9781566633970 and ISBN 1566633974.