Ronald Wallace is the author of numerous books of poetry, including: "Long for This World: New and Selected Poems; The Uses of Adversity; Time's Fancy; People and Dog in the Sun;" and "The Makings of Happiness." His works of literary criticism include: "God Be with the Clown: Humor in American Poetry; The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel;" and "Henry James and the Comic Form." Wallace is Halls-Bascom Professor of English, Felix Pollak Professor of Poetry, and codirector of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.