Robert MerrittRobert Merritt, Professor of English at Bluefield College in Virginia, is the author of the poetry collections The Language of Longing and Landscape Architects and the critical book Early Music and the Aesthetics of Ezra Pound. A member of the Nationl Association for Poetry Therapy, he offers workshops on the healing power of expressive writing. He has taught poetry in China and is a board member of Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation. Currently, he is writing about personal mythologies, the geographical imagination, and connections between Chinese and Appalachian poets. Read More Read Less