Laurence Goldstein (born 1943) is a

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, editor, and professor in the

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Department of English Language and Literature. Born in

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in 1943, he received a B.A. from

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in 1965 and a Ph.D from

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in 1970. Beginning in 1977, Goldstein was the chief editor of

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, 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. 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."

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