Words Taken to Heart: Four Answers to One Question

Allen Grossman was a postmodern poet born in Minneapolis. He taught at Brandeis University and was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Grossman earned three Pushcart Prizes, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Bassine Citation from the Academy of American Poets, and Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.