Shrunken Planets
Robert Louthan
"Robert Louthan's poems are simple and strange. They speak the plain speech of dreams, and are quietly but firmly committed to that kind of order."
—John Ashbery
"Louthan's world contains the most frightening features of our time."
—Mid-American Review
"Your poems scare me, mister."
—Anonymous
about the author
Robert Louthan was born in 1951 and raised on Long Island, New York. He was educated at Empire State College (B.A., 1976) and Goddard College (M.F.A., 1978). His books include Living in Code (University of Pittsburgh, 1983). His poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, as well as in dozens of other magazines. He is anthologized in Anthology of Magazine Verse (Monitor Book Company, 1980) and Pioneer Letter: The Letter As Literature (Northwest Review Books, 1981), and is published as an interviewer in The Weather For Poetry, edited by Donald Hall (University of Michigan Press, 1982).
