“The Half-Life is a terrific book. I love its formal dexterity and high intelligence. The poems enact the intricate rhythms of thought and feeling, building sometimes toward anxiety and sometimes toward the expression of a mind deep in memory, meditation, regret, or travel. Roger Greenwald has created interiorities that are musically engaging while evoking a brilliant and complex personality.”
— Kevin Prufer

Roger Greenwald grew up in New York City. He attended City College and the Poetry Project workshop at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery. then completed graduate degrees at the University of Toronto, where he founded and edited the international literary annual WRIT Magazine at Innis College. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The World, Pequod, Pleiades, Poetry East, Prism International, The Spirit That Moves Us, The Texas Observer, Great River Review, Leviathan Quarterly, Exile Magazine, CNQ, Copper Nickel, The Massachusetts Review, and Stand Magazine. He has won two CBC Literary Awards (for poetry and travel literature), the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize, and many awards for his translations from Scandinavian languages. He has published two previous books of poems: Connecting Flight and Slow Mountain Train.