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David Masonrsquo;s books of poems includeThe Buried Houses(winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize),The Country I Remember(winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award), andArrivals. His first novel,Ludlow, was published in 2007, and named best poetry book of the year by the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Author of a collection of essays,The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, Mason has co-edited several textbooks and anthologies, includingWestern Wind: An Introduction to Poetry,Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism,Twentieth Century American Poetry, andTwentieth Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry. His poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in such periodicals asHarperrsquo;s,The Nation,The New Republic,The New York Times,The Times Literary Supplement,Poetry,Agenda,Modern Poetry in Translation,The New Criterion,The Yale Review,The Hudson Review,The American Scholar,The Irish Times, andThe Southern Review. He has also written the libretto for composer Lori Laitmanrsquo;s opera ofThe Scarlet Letter. He recently won the Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize for the development of a new libretto. A former Fulbright Fellow to Greece, he lives near the Garden of the Gods with his wife, Anne Lennox.