Michael benedikt biography
Michael benedikt biography
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Michael Benedikt (poet)
American poet
Michael Benedikt (May 26, 1935[1] – February 9, 2007) was an American poet, editor, and literary critic.
Biography
Michael Benedikt was born in 1935 in New York City.[2] He received his B.A. from New York University and earned a master's degree in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University.[1]
Prior to publishing his first collection of poetry, Benedikt co-edited three anthologies of 20th-Century Poetic Theatre from abroad.
His anthology of twentieth-century American plays was issued in 1968.
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He was also the editor of two landmark anthologies of twentieth-century poetry: The Poetry of Surrealism in 1974; and The Prose Poem: An International Anthology in 1976. Benedikt was Poetry Editor for The Paris Review from 1975 to 1978.
His editorial selections are represented in The Paris Review Anthology in 1990. Occasionally active as a critic/journalist, he is also a former Associate E