So Be It

About the Book

"Reading Robert Greenwood's collected poems is like eavesdropping on a lifetime of sparkling conversation. The poems celebrate a life well lived, filled with creativity, generous friendships, curiosity, and affection. They bridge the entire span from boyhood to old age, its whole variety transmuted into words, and now (through the miracle of print) held in the hand." ---Paul Merchant, The William Stafford Archives, Portland, Oregon.

About the Author

Robert Greenwood has published a total of nine books, including fiction, history, and poetry. He has published in The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, San Jose Studies, Blue Unicorn, and other periodicals. In 1985, he published a book of short stories, Arcadia and Other Stories. One of the stories in the book, "Archetypes," was reprinted in The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, published by New American Library. The story was again reprinted in Introducing the Short Story, published by Amsco Press in 1991. He graduated from the University of Denver with two Master's Degrees. He was a Judge in the Alan Swallow Poetry Awards from 1954 to 1956, and an Associate Editor of Twentieth Century Literature from 1954 until 1958.