Sadoff, Ira | Sadoff, Ira 1945–
Sadoff, Ira 1945–
Sadoff is an American poet, critic, translator, and editor. He is cofounder and editor of the Seneca Review. The tone of his poetry is remarkably akin to prose, continually avoiding "academic" or "poetic" expression. The mood of his poetry is one of controlled resignation. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 53-56.)
In the biographical note [to Settling Down] it does not say that Sadoff studied at Iowa, but his poetry is stamped with that sound and shape. (It seems inevitable that "the Iowa Poets" will wedge into our jargon before long.) He works in hard-edge designs of pure acrylic colors. As if talking meant taking, he clenches his teeth in a brave reluctance, acknowledging no less than is necessary. Like Edward Hopper, he can make empty space into a premonition of disaster…. With his finger pressing "the trigger of sadness," he is forever "taking the subject/and subjecting it to our sense/of...
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