Robert Hahn is a poet, essayist, and translator. His books of poetry include No Messages (Notre Dame University Press, 2001) and All Clear (South Carolina University Press, 1996). His nonfiction has appeared in American Scholar, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, TriQuarterly, Southern Review, Raritan, and elsewhere. His translations from the Italian (with Michela Martini) have been widely published and are collected in the FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (FSG, 2012). He lives in Boston.