These four contestants, all champions from previous seasons, were invited to compete again.
(using high carbon steel and wrought iron) Granting Iris the attention he haplessly courted all his life, Abbott discovers a forger of fame whose story provides a commentary, often parodic, on the place of poetry in his time.A contestant's name preceded by the numeral 1 signifies the winner.Ī contestant's name preceded by the numeral 2 signifies 2nd place.Ī contestant's name preceded by the numeral 3 signifies 3rd place.Ī contestant's name preceded by the numeral 4 signifies 4th place.Ī contestant's name preceded by the numeral 5 signifies 5th place.Ī contestant's name preceded by the numeral 6 signifies 6th place.Ī contestant's name preceded by the numeral 7 signifies 7th place.Ī contestant's name inside angled brackets ( ) denotes that person being medically released. Iris's self-projection as a neglected poetic genius often was designed to translate into monetary value, while confirming his role behind the scenes of twentieth-century literary history. With energy and persistance, the minor Chicago poet insinuated himself among the great and famous and simulated a life of literary stardom. Driven by ambition and narcissism, he began publishing poetry in 1905, participated in the Chicago Renaissance, and continued publishing until two years before his death in 1967. Examining Iris' grandiose fantasy, Craig Abbott exposes his forgery, plagiarism, and imposture.Īs a child, Iris had emigrated from Italy with his mother, who arrived in Chicago in pursuit of the American dream. Yeats, to one of Iris's volumes of poetry-although at the time of publication Yeats had been dead for several years. "Of poets writing today, there is no greater," states a preface, signed by W. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Ezra Pound, Dame Edith Sitwell, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Wrigley, and Woodrow Wilson. Poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger, Iris engaged in a lifelong campaign of self-promotion that linked him to a constellation of leading writers and public figures, among them T.S. If poets are "liars by profession," Sharmel Iris was truly professional.
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