Adam Kirsch
Adam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic.
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[edit] Early life and education
He is the son of lawyer, author, and biblical scholar Jonathan Kirsch, and a 1997 graduate of Harvard College.[1]
[edit] Career
He was the book critic for the New York Sun until it ceased publishing in 2008. He was previously the assistant literary editor for The New Republic, “no small achievement for a writer in his 20s.”[2] He is also the author of the weekly column "The Reader" on Nextbook. Richard John Neuhaus writing in First Things called Kirsch “a literary critic of some distinction.”[3] 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 (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.”[2] He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, and other magazines. Kirsch is a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] 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, 2008
[edit] Articles
- Kirsch, Adam (12 January 2009). "The Critics: Beware of Pity". The New Yorker 84 (44): 62–68. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/01/12/090112crat_atlarge_kirsch. Retrieved 27 March 2009. Hannah Arendt.
- Kirsch, Adam (30 April 2009). "On the Edge". The New York Review of Books 56 (7): 4,6.
- Kirsch, Adam (Feb/Mar 2010). "Letter Heads: The art of correspondence from Keats to Burroughs". Bookforum 16 (5): 17. http://bookforum.com/inprint/016_05/5007.
- Reviews Blom, Philipp (2008). The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914. Basic Books. ISBN 0465011160.
[edit] References
- ^ A Poet's Warning (November-December 2007)
- ^ a b Prosaic Judgments
- ^ FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » RJN: 2.24.06 Adam Kirsch is books…
[edit] External links
- Life On Venus: Europe’s Last Man, World Affairs
- What Disraeli Can Teach Us Book review of Benjamin Disraeli from The New York Review of Books
- [1] Book review of "Violence" by Slavoj Zizek
- Kirsch author page and article archive from The New York Review of Books
