Prospects

Which prospects will be shared? Which inherited? Or must they be individual inventions, spurs digging into a future unavailable but, nevertheless, still there? Judith Hall’s new poems consider the ways in which prospects take any number of forms, as different perspectives offer a sense of choice and loss.

Judith Hall is the author of four earlier poetry collections and a collaboration with David Lehman, which she also illustrated. She has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She taught for many years at the California Institute of Technology, and after moving to New York, she taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of the Arts.