Ether Dome and Other Poems

Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Brynner Prize for Poetry, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was professor of English at Brandeis University and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.

"The Ether Dome is the most complete collection available of the work of one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets. Grossman takes the risks of writing as a seer and prophet, and frequently justifies this perilous ascent to an authentic sublimity."