Synopses & Reviews
After early years growing up in Montana and Wisconsin, Stephan Torre spent his teen years in Monterey, California. After college in Berkeley and San Francisco, he lived on the Big Sur and Mendocino coasts, working as a wood butcher," building houses, and salvaging redwood logs. Torre later went north to settle on a remote homestead in the Canadian Rockies with his wife and two daughters, scratching a living from livestock and sawmills. Eventually, he moved south to Point Reyes, California, then to the Great Basin high desert, where he now lives on a small ranch at the base of the Warner Mountains. Given his priority for living in raw and untamed country, Torre's poems are seldom without reference to wild landscape. He resists, however, being called a "nature poet," since he frequently deals with traditional rural male work, gender, privilege, art, and the tensions inherent in people's rapacious claims of land ownership."
About the Author(s)
Stephan Torre's first collection of poems, Man Living on a Side Creek, was published by New York University Press in 1994, the same year it won NYU's Bobst Award. Stephan Torre has been published in many US and Canadian journals, received two Marin Arts Council grants, and special recognitions for his long poems.
Synopsis
Stephan Torre's first collection of poems, Man Living on a Side Creek, was published by New York University Press in 1994, the same year it won NYU's Bobst Award. Stephan Torre has been published in many US and Canadian journals, received two Marin Arts Council grants, and special recognitions for his long poems.