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Poems by Ira Sadoff.

Sadoff's eighth poetry collection seeks to understand why cultural norms have kept people from their fullest, most engaged selves.

A reissuing of Sadoff's seminal 1978 volume of poetry

Ira Sadoff's ninth book shows a seasoned poet at the height of his powers: class, religion, politics with sharp wit.

In this capacious and energetic volume, Ira Sadoff argues that poets live and write within history, our artistic values always reflecting attitudes about both literary history and culture at large. "History Matters" does not return to the culture war that reduced complex arguments about human nature, creativity, identity, and interplay between individual and collective identity to slogans. Rather, Sadoff peels back layers of clutter to reveal ...

Ira Sadoff's new volume of poems opens with a quotation from Rilke: "But because truly being here is so much, because everything here / apparently needs us, the fleeting world, which in some strange way / keeps calling us...." The poetry collected here is a response to this call. Rooted firmly in the "fleeting world, " Sadoff's poems find epiphanies of meaning in unexpected and even unpleasant experiences and emotions. The poems in Barter delv...

An experienced and highly respected poet, Ira Sadoff crafts hard-edged scenes, honed on the stuff of real life. From the unblinking honesty of "My Mother's Funeral" to the cultural worship of "At the Movies", Sadoff carves out, with each remarkable line, an unforgettable sensuousness.