Earthling

James Longenbach (1959-2022) was an American poet and literary critic renowned for his work on modernist poetry, including influential books like Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats & Modernism (1988) and The Resistance to Poetry (2005), and poetry collections such as Earthling (2017, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and Forever (2021). He served as the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester, earning major awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.James Longenbach official site.