Michael Scharf (poet)

Michael Nathan Scharf (born January 6, 1969 in Albany, New York) is an American poet and critic. Scharf's poetry "mimics a vernacular language so debased it does actual harm." [1] He was poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly from 1997 until 2006. At Poets & Writers magazine, he founded and wrote the column Metromania. In 1999, he founded Harry Tankoos Books, which publishes books and chapbooks; in 2006, with the poet Joshua Clover, he co-founded the small press ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni, publisher of Kevin Killian's Action Kylie, among other books. He holds a B.A. in cognitive science from Vassar College, and a M.A. in linguistics from Brown University. His work has appeared in Chain, ubuweb, Jacket, the Germ, and the Poetry Daily Essentials anthology.

Works
  • Telemachiad (sugarhigh!, 1999), 64pp.
  • Vérité (/ubu, 2002), 58pp.
  • For Kid Rock / Total Freedom (Spectacular, 2007), 96pp
  • Autoportraits from an Earlier Era (SA editions, 2009), 13pp.

Essays & Articles
  • Scharf on the use of poetry criticism in Jacket Magazine, 2000
  • Scharf on Austrian writers’ protests in Poets & Writers,
  • Scharf on Meghalaya, India in Change Observer

Reviews of Scharf's Work
  • For Kid Rock / Total Freedom, Stop Smiling, 2007.
  • Vérité, Overlap, 2003
  • Vérité, Pantaloons, 2004
  • Telemachiad, A Tonalist Notes, 2006
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gollark: Also that.
gollark: I really think you're overestimating how much people actually care. There have been various experiments regarding obedience and conformity which suggest that people will basically just do whatever people around them do.
gollark: Consider dying, for instance. People dying is quite bad for a variety of reasons, but because people can't really avoid it it got cognitive-dissonanced into being "good" in a ton of philosophies.
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References
  1. Purcell, Greg. (Nov 17, 2007.) "Freedom Ain't Free, and So On..."
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