Death of the Buddha

Ariana Grace Croese is a poet based in the Hudson Valley. She majored in Italian and German Studies at Cornell University, where she was a Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholar. She completed an honors thesis for her Italian major on "The Decameron" as well as one for her German studies major comparing "The Magic Mountain" and "The Tartar Steppe." Since graduating she has focused on writing poetry, and during the day, she works as a multilingual market research professional.