For my grandfather, Lewis Parke Chamberlayne “ . . . so-called periods of transition (if all periods are not so) –those centuries when a new religious or political systemis growing up amidst the decay of the old one . . . ” —L.P.C. Since the contagion isn’t...
Rachel is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, essays, and translations. She has received a Guggenheim, the O.B. Hardison Prize, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center at the NYPL. Recent books include Poems for Camilla and Questions in the Vestibule as well as verse translations of Euripides. Love and Dread is forthcoming in 2020, and a selection of prose, Piece by Piece, in 2021. Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, and has also taught writing at Columbia, Princeton, the Sewanee Writers Conference, the West Chester Writers Conference and the 92nd Street Y.