Robert Polito‘s books include the poetry collections Hollywood & God and Doubles, as well as A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover and the Library of America editions of Kenneth Fearing, Manny Farber, and David Goodis. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson. He founded the graduate program in creative writing at the New School, and is President of the Poetry Foundation.