Warwick Valley Poets present Fred Buell, June 18, 4 PM

Fred Buell is the author of two books of poetry and three of cultural criticism. Winner of NEA, NEH, and New York Foundation for the Arts grants, he has been a resident at Yaddo and given readings and lectures around the NYC area and beyond. He is a professor of English at Queens College, where he teaches environmental, technology, and cultural studies. He and his family live in Warwick, where they most love studying Yoga at the Iyengar Yoga Center on Main Street.

                        Wolves

It is reasonably well known that wolves will answer

people who attempt to imitate them.

Less well known is the fact that humans

likewise answer wolves, when wolves do the imitating.

Thus an autodialing of your phone

when you are the only one at home

may produce a deep silence, till one slow-

ly clears his/her throat and says hello.

You feel something just amiss, at the throaty style

which sounds almost human, but falls just shy.

So you get alarmed and, anxiously, inquire.

Then you get the click and hum of empty wires.