It was a fleeting moment early one Sunday morning on the road in northern Ohio. Such moments always are. …la rota che tu sempiterni desiderato, a sé mi fece atteso con l’armonia che tempere e discerni… —Paradiso, Canto I …the vast wheel you have made eternal by desire held me intent to […]
Mark Bauer
Mark Bauer's poems have appeared in over twenty literary journals as well as two chapbooks, Imperial Days (Robert L. Barth Publishing, 2002) and The Gnarled Man Rises (Scienter Press, 2005). His poems have merited Honorable Mention recognition from the Thomas Merton Institute Poetry of the Sacred Prize and the Southwest Review’s Marr Poetry Prize. Mark is professor emeritus of Harvard Medical School and have published over 200 scientific articles and six books, including the anthology, A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, & Addiction (Oxford University Press, 2009).