Lawrence Raab is the author of seven collections of poems, most recently The History of Forgetting. In addition, with Stephen Dunn he has published a chapbook of collaborative poems, Winter at the Caspian Sea. Raab was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1993, and a National Poetry Series winner for What We Don’t Know About Each Other. His poems have appeared in several editions of Best American Poetry and in Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he is the Morris Professor of Rhetoric at Williams College.