Provided by Wikipedia James Longenbach (Sept. 17, 1959 – July 29, 2022) was an Americancritic and poet. His early critical work focused on modernist poetry, namely that of Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and Wallace Stevens, but came to include contemporary poetry as well. His book of criticism, ''The Resistance to Poetry'', has been described as a "compact and exponentially provocative book." Longenbach published six volumes of poetry including ''Earthling'' (2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
