Debora Greger

Biography

Debora Greger is Professor Emerita, University of Florida, and Poet-in-Residence, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida. Her books include By Herself (Penguin, 2012) and Men, Women, and Ghosts (Penguin, 2008). Her art has appeared on the covers of books and literary journals for thirty years. 

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POETRY / Fall 2016

Elegy on the Far Bank

By Debora Greger


i.m. Greg Greger (1923–2015)

I. West of Chekhov

A month since Father died. Back in our old house, 
sisters, where were we? Desert of childhood, 
      great preserver, 

for you we opened another closet.
Father the farm boy––what didn’t he...

POETRY / Fall 2016

On First Looking Into Bishop’s Binoculars

By Debora Greger

What realms of gold did they travel,
these old field glasses? Her last pair,
focused beyond the tame sea-stacks 
of glass and bottle, they’d have caught––
from her Boston Harbor condo–– 
birds in maneuvers, breaches of whales.

POETRY / Spring 2004

Scholar in a Narrow Street

By Debora Greger

The pigeon on the window ledge
beat its wings against the glass.
The student in the narrow street

POETRY / Spring 1979

Harvest

By Debora Greger

Men wrap the bushes.
Schoolteachers bundle their charges
and send them onto the playground