E.M. Schorb describes himself as a former Marine, shoe shine boy, cowboy, Western Union boy, candy butcher in Minsky's Burlesque, stevedore on the New York docks, salesman, actor, dramatic coach, restaurant manager, copy writer, real estate broker, and mortgage broker. His poems have appeared in the American Scholar, the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, and the Yale Review, among many others. He is a recent recipient of a fellowship in literature from the North Carolina Arts Council.
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"The poems of E.M. Schorb shine calmly even as they buzz with energy; are connaissant with world and yet transcendent of it; make something deeply funny and yet highly sad - given a world and a time and a good mind's eye. This is the work of a mature intelligence, its ironies unadulterated by cynicism, and its swells informed by understatement. A feisty book, a confident book, and in its own way, a furiously festive one." --Heather McHugh