Lessons Regarding Landscape

(from Anatomy of the Eclipse)

Authors

  • Ellen Hinsey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18422/79-2819

Abstract

a poem by Ellen Hinsey

Author Biography

Ellen Hinsey

Ellen Hinsey is the author of ten books of poetry, essays, dialogue and literary translation. Her recent works include Anatomy of the Eclipse, The Invisible Fugue and The Illegal Age, which was a National Poetry Series Finalist as well as the UK Poetry Book Society’s 2018 Autumn Choice. Hinsey’s essays on dangers to democracy are collected in Mastering the Past: Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and the Rise of Illiberalism. Her other books include Update on the Descent, also a National Poetry Series Finalist, The White Fire of Time and Cities of Memory, which received the Yale University Series Award. Her book-length dialogue with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, Magnetic North, was a finalist for Lithuania’s Book of the Year and has appeared in seven languages. She is the recipient of numerous awards and her work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Irish Times, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung among many others. A former Berlin Prize fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, she has most recently been a visiting professor at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.

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Published

2026-09-24

How to Cite

Hinsey, Ellen. “Lessons Regarding Landscape: (from Anatomy of the Eclipse)”. New American Studies Journal: A Forum, vol. 79, Sept. 2026, doi:10.18422/79-2819.