Adam Fitzgerald (poet)

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Adam Fitzgerald (born 1983) is an American poet. He is the author of The Late Parade.

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Education

Fitzgerald received his BA from Boston College and his MA from Boston University before earning his M.F.A. from Columbia University. [1]

Work

Fitzgerald's poetry has appeared in Bomb , Boston Review , Granta , Los Angeles Review of Books , Poetry , and The Brooklyn Rail . He is the founding editor of the poetry journal Maggy. He teaches at Rutgers University and New York University, and has previously taught at The New School. [2] He is a founding director of The Ashbery Home School. [3]

Critical reception

Reviews were mixed for Fitzgerald's debut collection, The Late Parade, published by W.W. Norton/Liveright in 2013. David Kirby in The New York Times Book Review wrote: "There are plenty of poets who are word-drunk and plenty of others who slap down allusions faster than a blackjack dealer. But I can’t think of anyone today who is dealing in both currencies as fluidly as Fitzgerald. The result is a poetry as lush as any of Keats’s odes, as textured as a corridor in the Louvre." [4] Annalisa Pesek, writing for Library Journal , described the book as "an overstuffed collection, in a vocabulary overwrought with irony and busyness" and called the poems "airless, written in overambitious language that sounds desperate". [5] Julian Gewirtz, writing for the Boston Review , said "the effects deployed can feel overwhelming or gaudy, almost mannerist". [6]

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References

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  2. "Fitzgerald, Adam". Rutgers University . Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  3. "Ashbery School Interview in The Literati Quarterly". The Literati Quarterly. Archived from the original on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
  4. Kirby, David (August 2013). "Lush Life". The New York Times Book Review . Archived from the original on July 21, 2022. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  5. Pesek, Annalisa (15 June 2013). "The Late Parade: Poems". Library Journal . Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  6. Gewirtz, Julian (24 February 2014). "Microreview: Adam Fitzgerald, The Late Parade". Boston Review . Retrieved 2022-07-21.