Lorne Mook

Associate Professor of English

I Serve in...

English & Modern Languages Department

Education

• PhD, English, University of Cincinnati
• MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Maryland
• BS, English (Secondary Education), Taylor University

Career Accomplishments

• Published the first English-language translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry collection Traumgekrönt (Dream-Crowned)
• Read several scholarly papers at international conferences in England and Italy
• Chaired the Academic Policy Committee when it reviewed the academic calendar and expanded fall break
• Helped shape the English Senior Capstone course that I teach regularly

Featured Work

Dream-Crowned (book translation), University of New Orleans Press, 2010. https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/dream-crowned-traumgekront-rilke-mook/

Travelers Without Maps (poems), Word Press, 2002.

“The Friend” (poem), Tipton Poetry Journal, no. 49, 2021, p. 19.

“Progress” (translation), Blue Unicorn, vol. 45, no. 1, 2021, p. 10.

“The Corn Block” (poem), Tipton Poetry Journal, no. 45, 2020, p. 28.

“Fountain” (translation), Ezra, vol. 12, no. 2, 2018, ezratranslation.com.

“Winter Solstice” (poem), Tipton Poetry Journal, no. 32, 2017, p. 6.

“The Miracle We Need” (poem), Relief Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 2013, pp. 116-17.

Three untitled poems from Advent (translations), Rowboat: Poetry in Translation, no. 2, 2011, pp. 102-07.

“Disrupted Teleology and the Progression of Wordsworth’s 1850 Prelude.” In On Theorizing Romanticism and Other Essays on the State of Scholarship Today, edited by Larry H. Peer, Edwin Mellen, 2008, pp. 73-96.

A review of R. S. Thomas: Poetry and Theology. Christian Scholar’s Review, vol. 37, no. 3, 2008, pp. 394-97.

Sonnets to Orpheus: Book 1, Sonnets 5-6 (translation of poems by Rilke), AGNI, no. 68, 2008, 211-12.

“Gone Away” and “It Was in May” (translations), Poetry International, vol. 11, 2007, pp. 98-99.

“The Panther” and Sonnets to Orpheus: Book 1, Sonnets 1-3 (translations of poems by Rilke)

Literary Imagination, vol. 8, no. 2, 2006, 304-06.

“Seeing Through the Eye” (review of Eye-Baby, a book of poems by Lawrence Sail), Contemporary Poetry Review. Nov. 2007, cprw.com.

“The Year of Turning Seventy” (review of Littlefoot, a book-length poem by Charles Wright), Contemporary Poetry Review, Sept. 2007, cprw.com.

“The Everyday and the Teleological: Time-Conflict and the Generation of Affect in Books 1 and 2 of

The Prelude.” European Romantic Review, vol. 17, no. 5, 2006, pp. 593-605.

“Distance from Etiological Sites in the ‘Calypso’ Episode of Ulysses”

James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, 2002, pp. 775-85.

Biography

Students at Taylor make teaching at Taylor a joy! When I meet them where they are, they are willing to be led to broader interests, deeper engagement, and higher understanding; when I discuss the subject matter with passion, they get passionate too.

Hobbies

I enjoy reading, listening to music, hiking, and traveling. A little know fact about me is that I grew up on a family farm.