James Longenbach

James Longenbach (Sept. 17, 1959 – July 29, 2022) was an American critic and poet. His early critical work focused on modernist poetry, namely that of Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and Wallace Stevens, but came to include contemporary poetry as well. His book of criticism, The Resistance to Poetry, has been described as a "compact and exponentially provocative book."[1] Longenbach published six volumes of poetry including Earthling (2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.[2]

  1. ^ review of The Resistance to Poetry Archived 2006-10-01 at the Wayback Machine at the journal Poetry. Accessed 3 July 2006.
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