About the Contributor(s): Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at College of the Holy Cross where he is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He has published six collections of poems: Life-List, which won the Ohio State University Press/Journal award (1987), What Binds Us to This World (1991), Heavy Grace (1996), Against Consolation (2002), Common Life (2006), and his newest, Walking With Ruskin (2010).