Troy Jollimore
Troy Jollimore's first book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, At Lake Scugog, was published in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets in 2011. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, the Believer, and other publications.
He earned a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University and is currently a professor in the philosophy department at California State University, Chico.
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Articles By TROY JOLLIMORE
- Beach Reading
The pleasures of Robert Hass's criticism. - Gary Snyder: “Four Poems for Robin”
A turbulent first love recollected in something like tranquility. - Robert Lowell: “Skunk Hour”
Witness the making of a new American poetics.
Audio & Podcasts
Poetry Off the Shelf-
He Wasn't Always Such a Confessional Guy
Troy Jollimore talks about Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour."
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POET’S REGION U.S., Western
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Biography
Troy Jollimore's first book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, At Lake Scugog, was published in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets in 2011. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, the Believer, and other publications. He earned a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University and is currently a professor in the philosophy department . . .
