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Robert Polito
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(director) Born in Boston, received his PhD in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University. Author of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and an Edgar; Doubles (a book of poems); A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover; and At the Titan's Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron's Poetry. Editor of the Library of America volumes Crime Novels: American Noir of the 30s and 40s and American Noir of the 50s. Essays and poems in Best American Poetry, Walk on the Wild Side: American Urban Poetry Since 1975, O.K. You Mugs, and Communion; also in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, ArtForum, BOMB, Verse, Pequod, Open City, Ploughshares, New York Times Book Review, and VLS, among other magazines. Fellowships from the Ingram Merrill and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundations. Contributing editor of BOMB and The Boston Review. Has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, and New York University. Director of the Writing Program at The New School since 1992.
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