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Jay Rogoff is poet laureate of Saratoga Springs, New York. His seven books of poems include his Washington Prize-winning sequence The Cutoff (Word Works), as well as The Long Fault; The Art of Gravity; Venera; Enamel Eyes, a Fantasia on 1870 Paris; and most recently Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems, all from LSU Press. His collection of essays, Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods, also from LSU, won the Lewis P. Simpson Award for outstanding literary criticism. His other honors include the Poetry Society of America's John Masefield Award, the Robert Watson Poetry Award and a Pushcart Prize.