Jim Benson lives and teaches in Buffalo, New York. Some major influences in his development as a writer have been Shakespeare, Hopkins, Conrad, Eliot and Dylan..
1999 0-7734-3115-2 A volume of poems that explores, among other tings, the intimacy of family and the question of how to maintain a long-term love. Portraits of father, husband, wife, son, daughter, and other people in the workplace or any place.