Karl Kirchwey is the author of five books of poems, including The Happiness of This World: Poetry and Prose (2007). Princeton University Press will publish his translation of Verlaine's first book (as Poems Under Saturn) in the spring of 2011, and Marian Wood Books/Putnam's will publish his sixth book of poems (tentatively entitled Mount Lebanon) at the same time.
The New Criterion, now co-edited by the art critic Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by Mr. Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.” This also meant engaging with those forces dedicated to traducing genuine cultural and intellectual achievement, whether through obfuscation, politicization, or a commitment to nihilistic absurdity. We are proud that The New Criterion has been in the forefront both of championing what is best and most humanely vital in our cultural inheritance and in exposing what is mendacious, corrosive, and spurious. Published monthly from September through June, The New Criterion brings together a wide range of young and established critics whose common aim is to bring you the most incisive criticism being written today.
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The New CriterionNovember 2009
