About
American poet, author, translator, critic, and professor who published Untitled Subjects in 1969. His other poetic works include Fellow Feelings, Misgivings, and Fallacies of Wonder.
Before Fame
He studied at Paris' Sorbonne and worked briefly as a lexicographer.
Trivia
He received the National Book Award for his translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal.
Family Life
He was adopted as an infant by Harry Orwitz and Emma Joseph, a Jewish couple living in Cleveland, Ohio.
Associated With
He was a friend of poet W.H. Auden.
