Professor, Department
of English, College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Education
Ph.D. University of Utah
Bio
Books:
Available Surfaces, essays, University of Michigan Press
(Poets on Poetry Series), 2012
Ephemeron, poems, LSU Press (Southern Messenger Series), Fall 2011
The Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body
Politic, University of Georgia, Spring 2006
Bluegrass Wasteland: Selected Poems, Arc Publications (UK), 2005
The Infinity Sessions, poems, LSU Press (Southern Messenger
Series), 2005
Useless Virtues, poems, LSU Press (Southern Messenger
Series), 2001
Walt Whitman in Hell, poems, LSU Press (Southern Messenger
Series), 1996
The 18,000-Ton Olympic Dream, poems, Wm. Morrow, Inc. 1991
Lower-Class Heresy, poems, University of Illinois Press 1987
The Passion of the Right-Angled Man, U. of Illinois Press 1984
The Angelic Orders, poems, LSU Press 1981
Translation of Light,
poems, Cedar Creek Press 1976 (limited edition)