Bob Perelman

Bob Perelman (born in 1947) is an American poet, literary critic, editor and academic. He is often associated with the Language School of poets.

Life
Perelman was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He has an M.A. in Classics from the University of Michigan, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Perelman's first book, Braille, a series of "improvisations" inspired by William Carlos Williams, was published in 1975. His many works since then include The First World (1986), Face Value (1988), Captive Audience (also 1988), and Virtual Reality (1993). In 1999, his selected poems were published under the title Ten to One.

Perelman's critical work often focuses on poetry and modernism, and he is the author of several scholarly volumes including The Trouble with Genius (1994) and The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (1996). Perelman had been involved in various editing projects, including Writing/Talks (1985), a volume which featured talks given by poets in a series Perelman curated in San Francisco in the 1970s.

Poetry

 * Braille. Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House Press, 1975.
 * Seven Works. Great Barrington, MA: Figures, 1978.
 * a.k.a. Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1979.
 * Primer. San Francisco, CA: This Press, 1981.
 * To the Reader. Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1984.
 * The First World. Great Barrington, MA: Figures, 1986.
 * Face Value. New York: Roof Press, 1988.
 * Captive Audience. Great Barrington, MA: Figures, 1988.
 * Virtual Reality.New York: Roof Press, 1993.
 * Ten to One: Selected Poems.Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1999.
 * Playing Bodies (in collaboration with painter Francie Shaw). New York: Granary Books, 2003.
 * IFLIFE. New York: Roof Books, 2006.

Plays

 * The Alps (produced in San Francisco, 1980), published in Hills (Berkeley, CA), 1980.

Non-fiction

 * The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukovsky. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994.
 * The Marginalization of Poetry: Language writing and literary history. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-691-02138-6
 * (contributor) The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography. Detroit, MI: Mode A/This Press, 2006- (ongoing). ISBN 978-0-9790198-0-7

Edited

 * Writing/Talks. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.