Michael Scharf (poet)

Michael Nathan Scharf (born January 6, 1969 in Albany, New York) is an American poet and critic.

Scharf's poetry "mimics a vernacular language so debased it does actual harm." ^[1] He was poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly from 1997 until 2006. At Poets & Writers magazine, he founded and wrote the column Metromania. In 1999, he founded Harry Tankoos Books, which publishes books and chapbooks; in 2006, with the poet Joshua Clover, he co-founded the small press ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni, publisher of Kevin Killian's Action Kylie, among other books. He holds a B.A. in cognitive science from Vassar College, and an M.A. in linguistics from Brown University. His work has appeared in Chain, ubuweb, Jacket, the Germ, and the Poetry Daily Essentials anthology.

Works

• Telemachiad (sugarhigh!, 1999), 64pp.
• Vérité (/ubu, 2002), 58pp.
• For Kid Rock / Total Freedom (Spectacular, 2007), 96pp
• Autoportraits from an Earlier Era (SA editions, 2009), 13pp.

Essays & Articles

• Scharf on the use of poetry criticism in Jacket Magazine, 2000 [1]
• Scharf on Austrian writers’ protests in Poets & Writers, [2]
• Scharf on Meghalaya, India in Change Observer [3]

Reviews of Scharf's Work

• For Kid Rock / Total Freedom, Stop Smiling, 2007. [4]
• Vérité, Overlap, 2003 [5]
• Vérité, Pantaloons, 2004 [6]
• Telemachiad, A Tonalist Notes, 2006 [7]

References

1. ^ Purcell, Greg. (Nov 17, 2007.) "Freedom Ain't Free, and So On..."

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