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Rae Armantrout is a poet who teaches at the University of California–San Diego. Her latest book of poetry is Next Life. Glenna Breslin first read Lorine Niedecker’s poems while living in a one-room cabin on the coast of northern California. This is her fourth publication on the poet’s life and writings. She is professor of English at Saint Mary’s College and lives in Berkeley, California. Michael Davidson is a professor of literature at the University of California–San Diego. He is the author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-century, Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word, and Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics. He is the editor of The New Collected Poems of George Oppen. His new book is Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (2007). Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet-critic, whose long poem project is collected in Torques: Drafts 58–76 as well as in Drafts 1–38, Toll, and “Drafts 39–57, Pledge,” with “Draft, unnumbered: Précis.” In 2006, she published Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work and a reprint of The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice. Other critical books include Writing beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of TwentiethCentury Women Writers and Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908–1934. She also edited The Selected Letters of George Oppen. Ruth Jennison is an assistant professor of modern and contemporary American poetry at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her current book project, “The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins and the Avant-Garde” lays the basis for a new sociology of literary modernism. “The Zukofsky Era” provides a political economic analysis of revolutionary American modernism and materialist avant-garde poetic form in Objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Lorine Niedecker. Peter Middleton is a professor of English in the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton. He is the author of The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture; Literatures of Memory, co-authored with Tim Woods; and Distant Reading: Performance, Readership and Consumption. He has also written many essays on modern and contemporary poetry, and a collection of poems entitled Aftermath. Contributors 296 | Contributors Jenny Penberthy’s edited works include New Goose; Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works; Lorine Niedecker: Woman and Poet; Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931–1970; and Harpsichord and Salt Fish. She is a professor of English at Capilano College in Vancouver, Canada. Mary Pinard is a poet and associate professor of English at Babson College. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Harvard Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. Patrick Pritchett is the author of several books of poetry, including Burn, Antiphonal , and Lives of the Poets. He is a lecturer in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University. Peter Quartermain is emeritus professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where he taught twentieth-century poetry written in English. He has edited several books, including the anthology Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (co-edited with the English poet Richard Caddel) and is the author of Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe as well as several dozen articles. He met Basil Bunting in 1970; they were friends until Bunting’s death in 1985. Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet whose books include XEclogue, Debbie: An Epic, and The Weather. Robertson’s most recently published works include Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, a book of prose essays and reports on the decorative art of walking, and The Men: A Lyric Book. She is currently artist-in-residence at California College of the Arts. Elizabeth Robinson is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Under That Silky Roof and Apostrophe. She is also a coeditor of Instance Press and EtherDome Chapbooks. The Orphan and Its Relations is forthcoming. Eleni Sikelianos’s most recent books are The California Poem and The Book of Jon. Previous books include The Monster Lives of Boys & Girls, Earliest Worlds, and The Book of Tendons. Forthcoming is Body Clock. Jonathan Skinner edits the review ecopoetics and is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Bates College. His recent poetry collections include Political Cactus Poems and Warblers. Anne Waldman is a poet, professor, editor, and cultural activist whose books include the epic Iovis project, Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, and In the...