Robert Pack

1929 – 2023

Robert Pack (May 19, 1929 – June 5, 2023) was an American poet and critic, and Distinguished Senior Professor in the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana - Missoula. For thirty-four years he taught at Middlebury College and from 1973 to 1995 served as director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He is the author of twenty-two books of poetry and criticism. Pack has been called, by Harold Bloom, an heir to Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson, and has himself published a volume of admiring essays on Frost's poetry He has co-edited several books with Jay Parini, including

• Writers on writing
• Before it vanishes
• Introspections
• The Bread Loaf anthology of contemporary American essays
• Affirming limits
• Affirming Limits
• All One Breath
• American identities
• Belief and uncertainty in the poetry of Robert Frost
• Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost
• Clayfeld Holds On
• Clayfeld rejoices, Clayfeld laments