Alan Batcher Williamson is a poet, short story writer, and a critic born in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a BA at Haverford College and a PhD at Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Lowell. He is the author of several books of poetry and criticism, including The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems (2004) and Almost a Girl: Male Writers and Female Identification (2001). His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Williamson currently teaches at UC Davis.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
On the Notebooks of Count Giacomo Leopardi
Leopardi's "Zibaldone assembles an argument for the necessary unhappiness of the human condition, at least in advanced cultures."...
A Song Heard on the Road: Leopardi’s Nihilistic Genius
IN THE ITALIAN POETIC CANON, Giacomo Leopardi ranks second only to Dante. But he is so notoriously difficult to translate that, ...
