Adam Kirsch - Citizendia

Adam Kirsch is the book critic of the New York Sun. He was previously the assistant literary editor for The New Republic, “no small achievement for a writer in his 20s. The New Republic ( TNR) is an American Magazine of politics and the arts ” ^[1] Richard John Neuhaus writing in First Things called Kirsch as “ a literary critic of some distinction” ^[2] Writing in The Nation, John Palattella describes Kirsch as “the intellectual offspring of the New Formalists, a small group of poets and critics--among them Brad Leithauser, Timothy Steele and Dana Gioia (Bush's head of the National Endowment for the Arts)--whose essays and poems in defense of traditional formal conventions were championed by The New Criterion during the 1980s. Richard John Neuhaus (born May 21, 1936) is a prominent Catholic priest and Writer born in Canada and living in the First Things is a monthly Ecumenical journal concerned with the creation of a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. Brad Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American Poet, Novelist Essayist and Teacher. Timothy Steele is a United States Poet and Academic. Born in Burlington Vermont in 1948, he is a professor of English at California Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950) is an American Poet and Critic who retired early from his career as a corporate executive ” ^[1] He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, and other magazines. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969 is a weekly literary review published in London by News International Kirsch is a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine and a 1997 graduate of Harvard College. Harvard Magazine is an independently edited Magazine and separately incorporated affiliate of Harvard University. Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, a Private university in the United States founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts ^[3]

Books

The Thousand Wells, 2002
The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, 2008
The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets (Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz and Sylvia Plath) 2005
Invasions: New Poems, 2008

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