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Nymph, Dun, and Spinner: Poems by Dolores Hayden
"elegiac eloquence" --Rachel Hadas
A Field Guide to Sprawl
"A wonderful guide to the terrible things being done in the American landscape." --Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
American Yard--Poems
"beautifully-made poems that are both erudite and wise"
--Elizabeth Alexander
Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
"the standard work on the suburban landscape in the United States."
--Ann Forsyth
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
"A compelling guide for the next generation of urban historians, preservationists, environmental activists, and public artists."
--Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

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DOLORES HAYDEN is the author of Building Suburbia, A Field Guide to Sprawl, and several other award-winning books about the history of American landscapes and the politics of place. She is a professor at Yale University and past president of the Urban History Association.

Hayden is also a widely published poet. Her new collection, Nymph, Dun, and Spinner, appeared in November 2010. Recent poems appear in The Yale Review, The American Scholar, Raritan, Slate, and The Best American Poetry 2009. She has received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the New England Poetry Society. In 2008 she gave the Phi Beta Kappa poem at Yale University.