BOB PERELMAN is Associate Professor of English at University of Pennsylvania. His volumes of poetry include Ten to One: Selected Poems (1999), Virtual Reality (1993), Face Value (1988), The First World (1986), and Primer (1981). He has also published critical works, including The Marginalization of Poetry (1996) and The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky (1994).

FRANCIE SHAW and Bob Perelman are married and live in Philadelphia where she is an artist.