Ira Sadoff is the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of English at Colby College. A distinguished, award-winning poet and critic, he is the author of numerous books of poetry, criticism, and essays, including Barter, Grazing, An Ira Sadoff Reader, Emotional Traffic, and Uncoupling, a novel. His poetry has been widely anthologized, most recently in Best Poems of 2008.

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