Advent

Technically accomplished, but only occasionally formal, Daniel Rifenburgh is essentially, as Richard Wilbur notes in his Introduction, ""a poet of strong, forthright feelings, both dark and light."" His work has appeared in a wide variety of leading journals, and in 1996 he received the prestigious Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, given to honor ""an American poet in mid-life who has not previously been recognized.