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About Robert Polito

Robert Polito is the author of the poetry collection, Doubles (Chicago), A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover (Michigan), and Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (Knopf/Vintage), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is editing a book of Manny Farber's film and art criticism, and completing a new book of poems. He directs the graduate writing program at The New School.