The author, editor, or translator of eight books, Shaun T. Griffin has taught a poetry workshop at Northern Nevada Correctional Center for twenty years. He received the Rosemary McMillan Lifetime Achievement in Art Award in 2006, awarded by the Sierra Arts Foundation.

Now, with the publication of From Sorrow’s Well, there’s a compilation of essays and interviews equal to the task of addressing the many facets of Carruth, from formalist to poetic improviser and innovator; from rural northern farmer to urban jazzman and urbane literary critic; from neurotic isolationist to clear-eyed observer of insanity and its cure in social connection.

The author, editor, or translator of eight books, Shaun T. Griffin has taught a poetry workshop at Northern Nevada Correctional Center for twenty years. He received the Rosemary McMillan Lifetime Achievement in Art Award in 2006, awarded by the Sierra Arts Foundation.

Now, with the publication of From Sorrow’s Well, there’s a compilation of essays and interviews equal to the task of addressing the many facets of Carruth, from formalist to poetic improviser and innovator; from rural northern farmer to urban jazzman and urbane literary critic; from neurotic isolationist to clear-eyed observer of insanity and its cure in social connection.

The author, editor, or translator of eight books, Shaun T. Griffin has taught a poetry workshop at Northern Nevada Correctional Center for twenty years. He received the Rosemary McMillan Lifetime Achievement in Art Award in 2006, awarded by the Sierra Arts Foundation.

Now, with the publication of From Sorrow’s Well, there’s a compilation of essays and interviews equal to the task of addressing the many facets of Carruth, from formalist to poetic improviser and innovator; from rural northern farmer to urban jazzman and urbane literary critic; from neurotic isolationist to clear-eyed observer of insanity and its cure in social connection.