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508:, writing, "Steely technical skill often contradicts the tender feelings and humility invoked throughout Adam Kirsch's first poetry collection. In 'A Love Letter,' he asserts, 'all my powers, poetic, analytical,/Cannot do justice to the theme,' but it's actually the stilted rhymes ('glosses/colossus'; 'momentous /portentous') and the familiarity of images like 'love waxes and wanes,/But, like the hide-and-go-seek of the moon,/It is only hiding, never really gone' that prevent Kirsch from sustaining his meditations on romantic love, city life and religion." But 465:
narcissism, self-pity, and sentimentality; that a poem succeeds, no matter how brutal or amoral it may be, as long as it retains the integrity of its artifice; that a poem fails when the poet abandons the imaginative work of completing it in order to solicit the reader's sympathy or reproach. What Kirsch doesn't convince us of is his cold-blooded bottom line, which is that if art is to be great, it often must take precedence over life, regardless of the costs.
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Mr. Kirsch ... does a wonderfully nimble job of conveying each poet's individual achievement and the evolution of his or her style, as apprenticeship gave way to maturity, as new techniques and language were invented to accommodate new ideas and material. Writing in a manner that is at once erudite
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There's both sense and power in Kirsch's arguments. He skillfully distinguishes the poems that use life as material for poetry from those that use poetry in order to justify or condemn the poet's real-life behavior. He convinces us that the former are art while the latter are exhibitions of
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and accessible, Mr. Kirsch proves equally adept at dispensing the sort of close readings of individual poems championed by the New Critics and at explicating correspondences between a poet's life and art in a fashion that would have been anathema to the high modernists.
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gave the book a positive review, stating that the book contained no "bad" poems and that "regardless of subject and tone, these are, because of their forms, poems of wit."
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The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets: Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz, Sylvia Plath
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was far more negative. He characterized the book as having "a flawed thesis, a few valuable readings of poems and a mess of missed opportunities." But in a review in
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For a while, Kirsch made his living as a freelance writer, and he has regularly written freelance articles for many different publications including
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Over the course of his career, he has written reviews and feature articles on a diverse array of poets and novelists, including
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Kakutani, Michiko. "Poets Escaping the Shadows of Greats Who Preceded Them," NY Times Book Review. June 28, 2005.
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Lehman, David. "'The Wounded Surgeon': Tradition and Individual Talents," NY Times Book Review. May 29, 2005.
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surprises." Hammer also criticized the poems for being too "cautious and rueful" and without passion.
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is an expert, emotionally astute study of the complicated Jewish-English statesman and novelist, and
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which he called "an advance on the 'silent, parcelled, and controlled' poems of the award-winning
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Kirsch was born in Los Angeles in 1976. He is the son of lawyer, author, and biblical scholar
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criterion for lasting criticism: the conversion of mere opinion into universal knowledge. In
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Technology Is Taking Over English Departments: The False Promise of the Digital Humanities
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FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » RJN: 2.24.06 Adam Kirsch is books…
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with a B.A. in English in 1997 and began his career as assistant literary editor for
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and opined that Kirsch was only skilled at criticizing those formalist poets, like
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titled "Is It Time To Retire the Term 'Genocide'?" in 2023 in response to the
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Tucker, Ken. "The Ties That Bind." NY Times Book Review. December 22, 2002.
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praised the Trilling book as well as Kirsch's previous nonfiction works:
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wrote a review of two of Kirsch's books published around the same time:
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The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets
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The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
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praised the book, calling it "eloquent and very astute." She added:
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in 2002. His poems have also appeared in many magazines, including
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Kirsch also generated controversy when writing an article for the
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wrote a highly critical review of Kirsch's first book of poetry,
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The People and The Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature
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The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century
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Starnino, Carmine. "The Plight of the Poet-Critic."
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Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas
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and the author of the weekly column "The Reader" on
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"Theory and Practice. 405:as his favorite contemporary poets and 1437: 1421:Kirsch author page and article archive 562:was heavily influenced by the work of 433: 1317:. American Library Association. 2005. 1170: 1064:from the original on 17 February 2010 1029:. A new translation by Paul Schmidt. 618:lines, which unroll smoothly without 493: 1357:Giraldi, William (1 December 2011). 1145:. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 1136: 853:The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914 845: 686: 428: 1218:"Critical thinking #1: Adam Kirsch" 787:, 2016 (W. W. Norton & Company) 775:, 2014 (W. W. Norton & Company) 751:, 2008 (W. W. Norton & Company) 13: 1505:21st-century American male writers 801:. The Critics. A Critic at Large. 610:With regard to Kirsch's poetry in 149: 138:. He is on the seminar faculty of 14: 1521: 1470:American male non-fiction writers 1381: 318:, as well as nonfiction books on 16:American poet and literary critic 1388:Life On Venus: Europe's Last Man 781:, 2016 (Columbia Global Reports) 690: 1350: 1337: 1307: 1296: 1285: 1171:Davis, Garrick (October 2002). 1137:Falk, Leah (18 November 2013). 983: 744:. New York: W. W. Norton. 2005. 682: 579:, Langdon Hammer also reviewed 1480:The Atlantic (magazine) people 1345:The New York Times Book Review 1274: 1263: 1252: 1192: 936:(46): 68–72. February 1, 2016. 904:(47): 75–79. February 3, 2014. 809:(44): 62–68. January 12, 2009. 769:, 2011 (Yale University Press) 576:The New York Times Book Review 470:The New York Times Book Review 453:The New York Times Book Review 332:The New Criterion Poetry Prize 196:The New York Times Book Review 1: 1430:Slate Archive for Adam Kirsch 1099: 956:"Culture as counterculture". 884:(12): 80, 81–83. May 6, 2013. 732:. Chicago: Ivan R. 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