- Ira Sadoff
Ira Sadoff is an award winning and widely anthologized poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Life
Sadoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He earned a B.A. (1966) from
Cornell University in industrial and labor relations and an M.F.A. (1968) from theUniversity of Oregon . He has taught at colleges and universities including theUniversity of Virginia and at theIowa Writer's Workshop . He is currently the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature atColby College inWaterville, Maine and teaches at the M.F.A. program atWarren Wilson College .Work
Sadoff is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s03/sadoff.html "Barter"] (2003) and [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f98/sadoff.html "Grazing"] (1998). Over three hundred of his poems and thirty short stories have appeared in major literary magazines, including "
The New Yorker ", "The American Poetry Review", "The Paris Review ", "The Nation ", "The New Republic ", "Esquire", "Antaeus", "The Hudson Review ", and "The Partisan Review ". Poems in "Grazing" have been awarded the Leonard Shestack Prize, the Pushcart Poetry Prize, and the George Bogin Memorial Prize from thePoetry Society of America . He has received Fellowships from the He has received Fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts and theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . He has characterized himself as "one poet among a decreasing minority who is trying to resist the return to formalism, the sterile, conservative, aesthete academicism of the nineteen-fifties."Bibliography
Poetry:
*Cite book|title=Barter |year=2003|id=ISBN 0-252-06737-1
*Cite book|title=Grazing |year=1998|id=ISBN 0-252-07120-4
*Cite book|title=Emotional Traffic |year=1990
*Cite book|title=A Northern Calendar |year=1982
*Cite book|title=Maine: Nine Poems |year=1981
*Cite book|title=Palm Reading in Winter |year=1978
*Cite book|title=Settling Down|year=1975Books:
*Cite book|title=An Ira Sadoff Reader: A collection of stories, poems, essays |year=1992
*Cite book|title=Uncouplng |year=1982External links
* [http://www.colby.edu/personal/i/isadoff Ira Sadoff]
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