John Logan, born in Red Oak, Iowa, received his undergraduate degree in biology (magna cum laude) from Coe College in 1943, and his M.A. in English from the State University of Iowa in 1949; he has done graduate work in philosophy at Georgetown University and Notre Dame University. He was married in 1945, and later divorced; Logan has nine children. He has taught at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, Notre Dame, the University of Washington, San Francisco State University, and, since 1966, the State University of New York at Buffalo. His work has earned extensive critical acclaim; he has been awarded Wayne State University's Miles Modern Poetry Prize in 1968, a Rockefeller Foundation grant in 1969, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Morton Dauwen Zabel Award in 1974, a State University of New York Research Foundation Fellowship in Poetry in 1979, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980. He is a former poetry editor of...