Jerome Mazzaro was an American editor

Editor

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, and poet

Poet

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He graduated from Wayne State University

Wayne State University

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 with a A.B. in 1954, and with a Ph.D. in 1963, and from the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

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 with a M.A. in 1956.

He worked as a technical writer for General Motors

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 from 1955 to 1956.
He taught at the University of Detroit from 1958 to 1961, and at the State University of New York at Cortland

State University of New York at Cortland

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 from 1962 to 1964, and at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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He edited Fresco from 1960 to 1961, and Modern Poetry Studies from 1970 to 1979.
He was assistant editor for North American Review from 1963 to 1965, and Noetics from 1964 to 1965.
He contributed to Salmagundi, American Poetry Review, and Helios.

Works

• The Achievement of Robert Lowell: 1939-1959 (1960)
• The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell University of Michigan Press, 1965
• Transformations in the Renaissance English lyric, Cornell University Press, 1970, ISBN 9780801405877
• Modern American poetry: essays in criticism, Editor Jerome Mazzaro, D. McKay Co., 1970
• William Carlos Williams: The Later Poetry Cornell University Press, 1973
• Postmodern American poetry, University of Illinois Press, 1980, ISBN 9780252007590
• The Figure of Dante (1981)

Translations

• Satires, Authors Juvenal
  Juvenal
  The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD.Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a...
  
  , Editor Richard Emil Braun, Translated Jerome Mazzaro, University of Michigan Press, 1965

Anthologies

• "Lullaby; Early Afternoon, Chautaugua", From the margin: writings in Italian Americana, Editors Anthony Julian Tamburri, Paolo Giordano, Fred L. Gardaphé, Purdue University Press, 2000, ISBN 9781557531520
• "The Caves of Love", Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana, Editors Carol Bonomo Albright, Joanna Clapps Herman, Fordham Univ Press, 2008, ISBN 9780823229109
• "Yvonne Winters and In Defense of Reason", The Critics who made us: essays from Sewanee review, Editor George Core, University of Missouri Press, 1993, ISBN 9780826209160

External links

• "The Caves of Love", The great American poetry bake-off], Author Robert Peters, Rowman & Littlefield, 1991, ISBN 9780810824102
• Evory, Ann. Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series, Volume 6. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1982. pp. 481–483.
• Metzger, Linda (ed.). Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series, Volume 13. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1984. pp. 353–354.