Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems

William Morris Meredith Jr. (1919–2007) was an American poet and educator who graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and published his debut collection Love Letter from an Impossible Land in 1944. He served as a Navy pilot in World War II and the Korean War, taught at Connecticut College for decades, and was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1978–1980), winning the Pulitzer Prize for Partial Accounts (1988) and National Book Award for Effort at Speech (1997).