Adam Kirsch

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.” [http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050718&s=palatella Prosaic Judgments ] ]
Richard John Neuhaus writing in "First Things" called Kirsch as “ a literary critic of some distinction” [ [http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=187 FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » RJN: 2.24.06 Adam Kirsch is books… ] ] 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.” He writes regularly for "The New Yorker", "The Times Literary Supplement", and other magazines. Kirsch is a contributing editor to "Harvard Magazine" and a 1997 graduate of Harvard College. [ [http://harvardmagazine.com/2007/11/p2-a-poets-warning.html A Poet's Warning (November-December 2007) ] ]

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
*Benjamin Disraeli, (Schocken,) 2008

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