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Robin Becker


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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
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Robin Becker (born 1951) is an American poet, critic, feminist, and professor.

Becker earned a BA and MA at Boston University. She taught for many years at the MIT before returning to Pennsylvania in 1994, where she is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women's Studies at Penn State.

Becker is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Tiger Heron and Domain of Perfect Affection. Her All American Girl won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. In 2000 she was honored with Penn State's George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she served as Penn State Laureate in 2010-11. Other honours include fellowships from The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies of the City University of New York, The William St
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All American Girl (Pitt Poe...

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Domain of Perfect Affection...

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The Horse Fair (Pitt Poetry...

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The Black Bear Inside Me (P...

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Giacometti's Dog (Pitt Poet...

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Tiger Heron (Pitt Poetry Se...

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Backtalk

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Personal Effects

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Venetian Blue: Poems

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“..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;”
Robin Becker, Brains: A Zombie Memoir

“Men as Friends"

I have a few which is news to me
Tom drops by in the mornings with his travel
mug my mother would call it a coffee klatch

we review our terrible histories with fathers
and talk about the father he’s become and how much
it will cost to replace gutters the ice brought down

and then there’s soft-spoken Harvey
with whom I enjoy long pauses in conversation about how
they raised the Nelson town hall and put a foundation
underneath

during which we both look at Mt. Monadnock and then down
at the ground and then back at each other silence precipitating
the pretty weather we share before he goes inside for lunch

when I had to pack up my office Tom boxed
and loaded books into my car I didn’t think he’d want
to but his idea of friendship includes carrying heavy things

at the dog park the retired Marine with the schnauzer
asked do you have a husband I replied I don’t care for men
in that way as a Marine James mostly played cards

on a supply ship now he mostly hunts and fishes
climbs his orchard ladder for my Cortlands
and in trout season leaves, in my fridge, two rainbows”
Robin Becker



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