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Jerome Mazzaro
Jerome Mazzaro was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1934, and for the most part of his academic career, he was Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the State University o...view moreJerome Mazzaro was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1934, and for the most part of his academic career, he was Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He retired from teaching in 1996, having also been a Visiting Professor at California State College at San Diego (1978) and Bennington College, where he was Hadley Fellow (1979-80). A graduate of Wayne State University (A.B., 1954 and PhD., 1963) and the University of Iowa Creative Writing Program (M.A. 1956), he was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1964. His books include five previous volumes of poetry, Changing the Windows (1966), The Caves of Love (1985), Rubbings (1985), Weathering the Changes (2002), and Dream Catchers (2008) as well as a verse translation of Juvenal’s Satires (1965). In addition to appearing in numerous magazines and journals, his poems have been included in The New York Times Book of Verse, ed. Thomas Lask (1970), American Poets in 1976, ed. William Heyen (1976), 50 Contemporary Poets, ed. Alberta T. Turner (1977), and From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana, eds. Anthony Tamburri, Paolo Giordano, and Fred Gardaphé (1991). He has also published studies on Robert Lowell, the Renaissance English Lyric, William Carlos Williams, Luigi Pirandello, and Dante, and edited a number of works on contemporary poets and poetry.view less