“Harry Bauld, the author of On Writing the College Application Essay, which I credit with helping me get into college.”
- Ron Lieber, New York Times financial columnist and author of The Opposite of Spoil.
“Short, funny and to the point, On Writing the College Application Essay eased a lot of my anxiety in writing the college application essay. I got into the colleges I want whereas my friends with much better grades didn't. I can say for sure that this book had help me write my personal essay that separated me from the competition.”
- amazon.com reviewer (2014)
"What is the 'uncorrected eye' that Harry Bauld celebrates? This uncorrected eye, he writes, reveals a world that 'brims, marbles, quivers / over its boundaries, wells.' And that is what his poems do. From his jazz-like improvisations to the whip-like turns in his sonnets, from his 'magic cloud of memory” to the “limping lion of history,' Bauld presents us with a world we thought we knew well. Now, in these beautifully crafted poems, we feel as though we are meeting it for the first time."
– Fred Marchant, author of Said Not Said
Harry Bauld is looking so hard at art that he is deliriously incantatory. He demands it take him not only to an elsewhere but to that place where a new world is constructed from the debris of the old. Bauld’s ekphrastic verse immerses the painter’s brush in the poet’s voice to tell of beauty and discontent: “I want to learn to sing with my hands…to the broken distance between us.” From Miles Davis to Magritte, Bauld convenes his heroes with humor and pathos. He has studied the moves of boxers and magicians and How to Paint a Dead Man speaks glorious lyric to our troubled time: “More than a sum sung of pasts, tomorrow is a mortification waiting in an unknown tongue.”
––Desiree Alvarez, author of Devil's Paintbrush and Raft of Flame
About Harry
Harry Bauld was twice first-team All-Ivy League shortstop at Columbia University. A former admissions officer at Columbia and Brown, he is the author of On Writing the College Application Essay (HarperCollins), the classic guide in the field. As a freelance journalist he has written articles about sports, the arts, wine, and other topics for various magazines. His poems have won the New Millennium Writings Award and the Milton Kessler Poetry Prize, and appeared in Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, and Passager (Issue 49) among others. He currently teaches at Horace Mann School in New York.