B.H. Fairchild was born in Houston, Texas and grew up there and in small towns in west Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas and University of Tulsa and now lives with his wife and daughter in Claremont, California.
"Fairchild's ability... is probably unmatched in contemporary American poetry. The incisive psychology, the vividly descriptive diction, the large repertoire of vocabulary, the weightiness of his settings and plots: all these contribute to the delightful sensation that one is reading, simultaneously, the best poetry and best prose. I cannot think of another living poet capable of delivering such pleasure Kate Daniels, The Southern Review Anyone who can lay claim to the authorship of this much excellent poetry wins my unqualified and grateful admiration. Anthony Hecht (from the Introduction) B.H. Fairchild boldly plunders the territories of prose to expand the possibilities of contemporary verse.... These fluent poems are omnivorously intelligent. The reader never knows what will come next; but, as deeply psychological in their probings as a novel, they always cohere. Dana Gioia These remarkably textured, generous, haunting poems articulate the absence and longing that are created by experience and that in turn keep experience alive. Anyone who wishes to understand not only the contemporary American idiom but the reasons for that idiom will have to read B.H. Fairchild's The Art of the Lathe. Wyatt Prunty
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