Professor Emerita at Stonehill College, Barbara L. Estrin is the author of four books of criticism, including several about poetics and poetry, most relevant here, The American Love Lyric after Auschwitz and Hiroshima.  She has also published numerous articles about modern and contemporary poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Samuel Beckett, Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Paul Muldoon, and Edwin Honig