James Longenbach

James Longenbach is the author of five distinguished critical studies of modern literature, most recently The Resistance to Poetry (University of Chicago Press, 2005). His three books of poems, including the forthcoming Draft of a Letter, are published by the University of Chicago Press. This fall he will be the Bain-Swiggett Professor of Poetry at Princeton University.

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