{{short description|American critic and poet}} '''James Longenbach''' (Sept. 17, 1959 – July 29, 2022) was an [[Americans|American]] [[critic]] and [[poet]]. His early critical work focused on [[modernist]] poetry, namely that of [[Ezra Pound]], [[W. B. Yeats]], and [[Wallace Stevens]], but came to include contemporary poetry as well. His book of criticism, ''The Resistance to Poetry'', has been described as a "compact and exponentially provocative book."<ref>[http://www.poetrymagazine.org/books/staffreviews/3.html review of ''The Resistance to Poetry''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001170140/http://www.poetrymagazine.org/books/staffreviews/3.html |date=2006-10-01 }} at the journal ''[[Poetry (magazine)|Poetry]]''. Accessed 3 July 2006.</ref> Longenbach published six volumes of poetry including ''Earthling'' (2017), which was a finalist for the [[National Book Critics Circle Award]].<ref name="Rochester"/>
==Career== Longenbach received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from [[Trinity College (Connecticut)|Trinity College]] in Hartford, Connecticut and subsequently received his Ph.D. from [[Princeton University]].
Longenbach was Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the [[University of Rochester]] and taught at the University from 1985 until his death in 2022. His poems also appeared in many magazines and journals, including ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[The New Republic]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', and ''[[Yale Review|The Yale Review]]'', as well as ''[[The Best American Poetry 1995]]'' anthology. Longenbach frequently reviewed books for ''[[Boston Review]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', and the ''[[Los Angeles Times Book Review]]''.
==Personal life== Longenbach was married to novelist [[Joanna Scott]] (and fellow Trinity graduate) whom he met in [[Rome, Italy]], in 1981.<ref name="Rochester">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/remembering-james-longenbach-poet-critic-530072/|title=James Longenbach 'made a central and rich place for poetry' at Rochester|first=Sofia|last=Tokar|date=August 16, 2022}}</ref> Scott eventually taught in the English Department of the University of Rochester.
Longenbach died at age 62 from cancer on July 29, 2022, in [[Stonington, Connecticut]]. He was survived by his wife and their two daughters.<ref name="Rochester"/>
==Selected bibliography== '''Prose''' * ''Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past'' (1987) * ''Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats & Modernism'' (1988; Oxford University Press) * ''Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose: Contributions to Periodicals in Ten Volumes'' (1991) (co-editor) * ''Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things'' (1991; Oxford University Press) * ''Modern Poetry After Modernism'' (1997; Oxford University Press) * ''The Resistance to Poetry'' (2005; University of Chicago Press) * ''The Art of the Poetic Line'' (Dec. 2007; Graywolf Press) * ''How Poems Get Made'' (2018; W.W. Norton & Company) * ''The Lyric Now'' (2020; University of Chicago Press)
'''Poetry''' * ''Threshold: Poems'' (1998; University of Chicago Press) * ''Fleet River: Poems'' (2003; University of Chicago Press) * ''Draft of a Letter: Poems'' (Apr. 2007; University of Chicago Press) * ''the iron key: poems'' (2012; W.W. Norton & Company) * ''earthling: poems'' (2017; W.W. Norton & Company) * ''forever: poems'' (2021; W.W. Norton & Company) *''Seafarer: New Poems with “Earthling” and “Forever”'' (2024; W.W. Norton & Company)
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==External links== * [https://www.jameslongenbach.com/ Official Website of James Longenbach] * [http://www.loggernaut.org/interviews/jameslongenbach Longenbach in conversation with Jesse Lichtenstein] at ''[[Loggernaut]]''. * [https://lannan.org/media/louise-gluck-with-james-longenbach Longenbach in conversation with Louise Glück] for the [[Lannan Foundation]]. * [http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=1916 Fairchild Award presented to James Longenbach], from University of Rochester public relations, October 2004
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