University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

Michael Hattersley was my uncle and my role model as an academic and a human. When I was in high school he was a professor at Harvard Business School, spending his weekends on Cape Cod and staying with us in our Brookline apartment during the week. In conversations after school in his smoke-filled room as the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour droned in the background, he taught me about politics, language, history, learning, and the world. Michael later retired to the Cape to be a full-time writer, and this is the book of poetry he published when I was in college. It’s filled with his friends, his politics, his family, his home, and his life. Michael loved Cape Cod. It lighted his life and his poetry, and it was there that he felt most connected to the natural world from which we come and to which we ultimately return.