Stephen Yenser is the author of The Fire in All Things (LSU, 1993), which was selected by Richard Howard for the 1992 Walt Whitman Award. His honors include a �Discovery�/The Nation Award, two Fulbright teaching fellowships, and the B. F. Connors Prize for Poetry from The Paris Review. With J.D. McClatchy, Mr. Yenser is editing James Merrill�s Collected Poems and Selected Letters. (2002)