Michael Scharf

Michael Scharf (born January 6, 1969) is an American poet.

Life

Born in Albany, New York, Scharf grew up in Great Neck, Long Island and received his BA in Cognitive Science from Vassar College in 1991. After beginning a Linguistics PhD at Brown University that same year, he left with an MA in 1993, writing a thesis on underspecification and vowel raising in the phonology of Sesotho. Scharf entered the PhD program in English Literature at the City University of New York in the fall of 1993, where he studied poetry with Louis Menand, Ann Lauterbach and Wayne Koestenbaum, and fiction with David Richter. From October 1997 through April 2006, he was poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, where he is currently a fiction reviews editor. For two years beginning in 1999, he was a contributing editor at Poets & Writers magazine, where he founded the column Metromania. In 2006, with the poet Joshua Clover, he co-founded the small press ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni. Scharf’s own micropress, Harry Tankoos Books, has published books and chapboooks since 1999, and is now an imprint of ingirum.

Bibliography

Poetry

Telemachiad (sugarhigh!): 1999 (chapbook); 2004 (full-length PDF); 2006 (perfect-bound book)

Vérité (/ubu): 2002 (full-length PDF); 2006 (perfect-bound book)

For Kid Rock / Total Freedom (Spectacular): 2007 (perfect-bound book)

Selected Articles, Essays & Reviews

“Poetry Criticism: What is it For?”
http://www.jacketmagazine.com:80/11/scharf-criticism.html

‘’Ready Contents in the New Language of Extreme Joints and Partial Correspondence’: Lytle Shaw’s Cable Factory 20 and The Lobe.
http://jacketmagazine.com/23/shaw-scharf.html

“The Days of Future Past”
Poets & Writers
http://www.pw.org/mag/scharf.htm

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