Laurence Goldstein



Laurence Goldstein (born 1943) is an American poet, editor, and academic.

Life
Born in Los Angeles, California in 1943, Goldstein received a B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1965 and a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1970.

Goldstein is a professor in the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. Laurence Goldstein, Department of English Language and Literature

Beginning in 1977, Goldstein was the chief editor of Michigan Quarterly Review, an academic journal featuring new writing by prominent critics, essayists, poets, and fiction writers. Goldstein stepped down as editor of Michigan Quarterly Review after its Spring 2009 issue.

Goldstein has written and/or edited several books of literary criticism (including work on romantic poetry, technology and literature, and film and literature), and published four volumes of poetry: Altamira, in 1978; The Three Gardens, in 1987; Cold Reading, in 1995; and A Room in California, in 2005.

Writing
Discussing poems about cinema in his book The American Poet at the Movies (1994), Goldstein remarks:


 * Poems about the movies are acts of reflection, acts of completion, asking in turn for readers willing to engage *their* unique and complex reality. What follows, then, is the first effort to undertake the journey down to the mouth of Plato's cave and speak with several generations of emerging poets about the mysterious shadows inscribed in the living body of their imagination.

Recognition
Since 2002, Michigan Quarterly Review has awarded an annual Laurence Goldstein Prize. Made possible by a gift from the University of Michigan, the prize is a $500 cash award to the author of a poem or group of poems published in the Review that year.