DeWitt Clinton, author of WHEN & IF: NEW POEMS- an in-person Boswell event

Fri Nov 07 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm UTC-06:00

Boswell Book Company | Milwaukee

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DeWitt Clinton, author of WHEN & IF: NEW POEMS- an in-person Boswell event
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DeWitt Clinton, author of WHEN & IF: NEW POEMS- an in-person Boswell event
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Boswell Book Company presents an evening with local poet and Professor Emeritus of English DeWitt Clinton, author of When & If: New Poems.

The link to order When & If from Boswell will be available soon. Signed copies are available on most event preorders. If you have a personalization request, enter it in "order comments" at checkout. Please note: signed copies will ship after the event. Remember to select “In Store Pickup” at check out to avoid unnecessary shipping fees on books you intend to pick up at the event.

As DeWitt Clinton aptly suggests in When & If, in life, we are on a merry-go-round. While we spiral from love, to loss, to longing for more, Clinton embraces both the eternal life of the human soul and the temperal nature of our human body. From the great losses during the Covid pandemic to the singular losses in our own lives, Clinton unpacks the range of emotions and conversations, both public and private, we process during loss.

"In When & If, DeWitt Clinton presents extended elegies and eulogies that seem to arise in a single exhalation of breath. The poems mourn the loss of his beloved wife Celine with the Covid pandemic as a global backdrop. One enjambed line leads to another without the formal constraints of punctuation or stanza breaks as Clinton creates a language of grief that is both personal and universal." -Beth Copeland, author, Shibori Blue: Thirty-six Views of The Peak

DeWitt Clinton is the author of The Conquistador Dog Texts and The Coyot. Inca Texts , among many others. He is also a prolific poet and essayist, with his work appearing in myriad publications, such as the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue and Cultural Studies< => Critical Methodologies. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and lives in Shorewood.

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Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, United States

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