AUTHOR

(1908-1963)


 * THEODORE ROETHKE WAS BORN IN SAGINAW, MICHIGAN, WHERE HIS FAMILY OWNED SEVERAL LARGE COMMERCIAL GREENHOUSES
 * WHEN ROETHKE WAS YOUNG HE WAS A PASSIONATE OBSERVER OF THE PLANTS THAT GREW IN THE GREENHOUSE
 * HE'S IDEAS FROM HIS POEMS CAME FROM OBSERVING THE PLANTS
 * THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE ROETHKE FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO RELATE WITH OTHER PEOPLE
 * HE FOUND HIMSELF CINFORTABLE WITH NATURE AND HIS POETRY
 * WHEN HE WAS 33 YRS OLD HE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY, LAUNCHING A CAREER AS ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED POETS OF HIS DAY