While We're Here signals the debut of a poetry that is startling and simple by turns, taking in the classical world and the contempprary with the rigor and inventiveness of its forms. This book is a narrative that moves edgily from the natural world to the social, from the social to the historical. Elegant, sometimes brutal, Madoff's poems echo each other, back and forth, weaving a whole that records the miraculous wealth of the natural world and our own miracles and mayhem within it.
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"WHILE WE'RE HERE has a shapeliness, a concentrated structural coherence, rare at any time. About darkness ... it is itself a book of light. Heartening; a genuine achievement" -- Frank Bidart
"While We're Here has a shapeliness, a concentrated structural coherence, rare at any time. About darkness and destructiveness, the ancient no always rising from primal darkness to erase brightness, it is itself a book of light. Heartening; a genuine achievement." -- Frank Bidart
"While We're Here has a shapeliness, a concentrated structural coherence, rare at any time. About darkness and destructiveness, the ancient no always rising from primal darkness to erase brightness, it is itself a book of light. Heartening; a genuine achievement." -- Frank Bidart
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Steven Henry Madoff was born in New York City and educated at Columbia University, where he was the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize and was the editor of the Columbia Review. He went on to do his graduate work on a fellowship in literature at Stanford University. His art criticism has been published widely and translated into many languages. He was the executive editor of ARTnews magazine from 1987-1994 and in 1997 published Pop Art: A Critical History with University of California Press. He is the executive editor of Joe. He lives in South Salem, New York, with his wife and two children.
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