This title is the winner of the "Yale Series of Younger Poets" competition for 2003.
Loren Goodman was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University with an AB in philosophy and went on to study at the University of Arizona (MFA, poetry) and State University of New York, Buffalo (MA, English literature).
“Goodman’s debut is pyrotechnic, polymathic, and wild as a naked
deb on a skateboard.”—Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times Book
Review
“Often amusing, always smart, Famous Americans makes for an
impressive debut.”—Carrie Etter, Times Literary Supplement
“Famous last words for this terrific book are hard to come by but
one such would be ‘Wonderful!’ Loren Goodman has made a veritable
masterpiece out of leftover formulae for writing quite other stuff
indeed. Famous Americans ismy kind of people.”—Robert Creeley,
author of Just in Time, Poems 1984–1994
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