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Robert Polito is a poet, biographer, essayist, critic, educator, and arts administrator. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography in 1995 for ''(Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson ).'' The founding director of the New School Graduate Writing Program in New York City, he was President of the Poetry Foundation from 2013-2015, before returning to the New School as a Professor of Writing. ==Early Life and Education== Polito was born in Boston, MA on October 27, 1951. His father was supervisor of the Post Office in the historic South Station railroad station. Polito attended Boston College High School and Boston College, where he was Features Editor of the college newspaper, The Heights. He edited and designed the official Boston College literary journal, Stylus, as well as the alternative campus magazine, Wingwing. Columnist George Frazier, reviewing one of Polito's Stylus issues in the Boston Globe, wrote, "I happen to think it may well be the the most sophisticated and subtle undergraduate literary magazine I have ever seen."〔Boston Globe, February 16, 1973, p. 33〕 He received his MA and Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard in 1981, with concentrations in the English Renaissance, Latin poetry, Romantic poetry, and modern poetry and fiction. His thesis, ''At the Titan's Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron's Poetry'', was published in 1987 in the Garland-Routledge series, Harvard Dissertations in English and American Literature. From 1983 to 1988 he wrote about literature and popular music for the Boston Phoenix, including articles about Elizabeth Bishop, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, Jim Thompson, and the Turbines. Polito taught at Harvard, Wellesley College, and New York University, before joining the faculty of the New School in 1992. He was the Holloway Visiting Poet at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. He is married to Kristine Harris, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Asian Studies, and film at SUNY, New Paltz. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Polito」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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