ROBERT CLINTON was born in 1946 and raised in upstate New York. He has worked as a carpenter and cabinetmaker in New York, California, and Vermont. In 1979 he received an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College, and since then, his poems have been published in Antaeus, Prairie Schooner, The Atlantic, and other periodicals, and he has twice been a MacDowell Colony fellow. He lives in southeastern Massachusetts with his wife, the poet Caroline Finkelstein, and works as a designer for a custom cabinet shop in Boston. He has completed a manuscript of poems called Taking Eden.