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{{short description|American poet}}
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'''Ira Sadoff''' is an American poet, critic, novelist and short story writer.
==Life==
Sadoff was born on March 7, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York.   He earned a B.A. (1966) from [[Cornell University]] in industrial and labor relations and an M.F.A. (1968) from the [[University of Oregon]]. He has taught at colleges and universities including the [[University of Virginia]], the [[Iowa Writer's Workshop]] and the M.F.A. program at [[Warren Wilson College]]. He is currently the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature at [[Colby College]] in [[Waterville, Maine]].
==Work==
Sadoff is the author of eight volumes of poetry, most recently ''True Faith'' (2012). His other recent poetry collections include ''Barter'' (2003) and  ''Grazing'' (1998). Over three hundred of his poems, thirty short stories and a number of essays have appeared in major literary magazines, including ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[The American Poetry Review]]'', ''[[The Paris Review]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', ''[[The New Republic]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', ''[[Antaeus (magazine)|Antaeus]]'', ''[[The Hudson Review]]'', and ''[[The Partisan Review]]''. Poems in ''Grazing'' have been awarded the Leonard Shestack Prize, the [[Pushcart Prize|Pushcart Poetry Prize]], and the George Bogin Memorial Prize from the [[Poetry Society of America]]. He has received Fellowships from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] and the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]]. Sadoff has characterized himself as "one poet among a decreasing minority who is trying to resist the return to formalism, the sterile, conservative, aesthete academicism of the nineteen-fifties."
His book, ''History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of American Culture,'' a collection of his critical work, was released on March 2, 2009, by the [[University of Iowa Press]].
==Bibliography==
{{Expand list|date=September 2016}}
===Poetry===
====Collections====
*{{cite book |author=Sadoff, Ira |title=Settling down |url=https://archive.org/details/settlingdownpoem0000sado |url-access=registration |year=1975 <!--isbn=-->}}
*{{Cite book|title=Palm Reading in Winter |year=1978}}
*{{Cite book|title=Maine: Nine Poems |year=1981}}
*{{Cite book|title=A Northern Calendar |year=1982}}
*{{Cite book|title=Emotional Traffic |year=1990}}
*{{Cite book|title=Grazing |year=1998|isbn=0-252-07120-4|last1=Sadoff|first1=Ira|publisher=University of Illinois Press }}
*{{Cite book|title=Barter |year=2003|isbn=0-252-06737-1|last1=Sadoff|first1=Ira|publisher=University of Illinois Press }}
*{{Cite book|title=True Faith |year=2012|isbn=978-1-934414-82-8|last1=Sadoff|first1=Ira|publisher=BOA Editions, Limited }}
*''Country, Living''. 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-948579-10-0}}.
==== List of poems ====
{|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%'
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!width=25%|Title
!|Year
!|First published
!|Reprinted/collected
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|I never needed things
|2016
|''The New Yorker''<ref>{{cite magazine|first1=Ira|last1=Sadoff|accessdate=2021-02-25|title="I Never Needed Things"|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/i-never-needed-things|magazine=The New Yorker|date=22 February 2016 }}</ref>
|
|-
|}
===Other===
*{{Cite book|title=Uncouplng |year=1982}}
*{{Cite book|title=An Ira Sadoff Reader: A collection of stories, poems, essays |year=1992}}
*{{Cite book|title=History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of American Culture |year=2009|isbn=978-1-58729-797-7|last1=Sadoff|first1=Ira|publisher=University of Iowa Press }}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://www.colby.edu/personal/i/isadoff Ira Sadoff]
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