Robert Polito (born 1951) is an American poet, academic, and literary critic.
Life[]
Polito was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[1]
He earned a Ph.D. in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University.
He is a contributing editor of BOMB and Boston Review. He has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, and New York University, and has been Director of the Writing Program at The New School since 1992. He lives in New York City.
He has published in the New Yorker, Yale Review, ArtForum, BOMB, Black Clock, Verse, Pequod, Open City, Ploughshares, New York Times Book Review, and VLS, among other magazines.
He served as president of the Poetry Foundation, July 2013 - June 2015.[1]
Quotations[]
- "Ed Hood knew everyone. Through him I encountered most of the Cambridge Warhol crowd that would [be] people [heard about in] Edie (Jean Stein and George Plimpton’s oral history of Edie Sedgwick) along with that crowd’s assorted New York visitors: Ed Hennessy, Chuck Wein, John Hallowell, Gerard Malanga, Lou Reed, René Ricard, Donald Lyons, Patrick Fleming, Dorothy Dean, Jonathan Richman, and Andy Paley."[2]
- Among my Boston College friends, Warhol radiated a sly, sinister hipness, a tangent to the dread, doom, and spectacle of our Catholic childhoods."[3]
- "Cain ultimately didn’t invent anything. He is often celebrated as the axial figure in the history of the crime novel.... Yet the [shift from detective-focus to criminal-focus] was already implicit in the literary fiction of the 1920s and 1930s that cultivated violence and gangsters – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers" (1927), and William Faulkner's Sanctuary (1931)." [4]
Recognition[]
Polito won the National Book Critics Circle Award and an Edgar Award for Savage Art: A biography of Jim Thompson.[5]
He has received fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Doubles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Hollywood and God. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-226-67339-4
Non-fiction[]
- At the Titan's Breakfast: Three essays on Byron's poetry. New York: Garland, 1987.
- A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's 'The Changing Light at Sandovar'. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
- Savage Art: A biography of Jim Thompson. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Edited[]
- Crime Novels: American noir of the 1930's and 40's. New York: Library of America, 1997.
- Crime Novels: American noir of the 1950's. New York: Library of American, 1997.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert Polito b. 1951, Poetry Foundation. Web, Oct. 13, 2018.
- ↑ A Pair of Andys: Looking at Andy Warhol through Andrew Marvell's eyes, and vice versa, PoetryFoundation.org.
- ↑ Id.
- ↑ Postman, a work on James M. Cain, from the Random House website.
- ↑ Robert Polito biography, New School University website.
- ↑ Search results = au:Robert Polito, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jan. 17, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Hollywood and God," at the Poetry Society of America
- Robert Polito at the Poetry Foundation
- Audio / video
- Peter Carey Interviewed by Robert Polito, Salon.com, May 8, 2001
- Robert Polito at YouTube
- Robert Polito at Amazon.com
- About
- Polito, Robert at the New School
- Ploughshares articles by or about Robert Polito, Ploughshares bibliography
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