Peter Filkins has previously published five books of poetry, most recently Water / Music (Johns Hopkins, 2021) and The View We’re Granted (Johns Hopkins, 2012). His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The Paris Review, The New Republic, Yale Review, Harper’s, and The American Scholar. The recent recipient of a Guggenheim, Fulbright, and NEH Public Scholars Award, he is currently at work on a biography of the Austrian poet and fiction writer Ingeborg Bachmann that will appear from Yale UP.