David Wojahn is professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program of the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of Spirit Cabinet, The Falling Hour, Late Empire, Mystery Train, Glassworks, Icehouse Lights, Interrogation Palace, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and World Tree, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize. Wojahn is the recipient of four Pushcart Prizes, the William Carlos Williams Book Award, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the George Kent Memorial Prize, and the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize, among other honors. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

“A spirit cabinet, for the Shakers, was a sort of stage through which the other world might speak. David Wojahn’s ferocious poems are ‘spirit cabinets’ in which appear the raging ghosts of public and private history. Wojahn samples everything from Gilgamesh to The Eagles, building a dense and bracingly idiosyncratic linguistic fabric. His searing, harrowed book portrays a nearly-ruined world lit by a glimmer of a tenderness, and by the corrective perspectives of irony and self-awareness. His hard-won compassion illumines, even if it is an elegist's compassion, in which love and lament are inseparable.”
--Mark Doty

“”Powerful, transcendent, insightful free verse ... miraculous.”
--Wisconsin Bookwatch