Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

The Editor: Peter Baker is the author of Modern Poetic Practice, Obdurate Brilliance: Exteriority and the Modern Long Poem, and, most recently, Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn. He is co-editor of The Scope of Words: In Honor of Albert S. Cook, (Peter Lang, 1991), and editor of the Lang series, «Studies in Modern Poetry». He is Professor of English at Towson State University in Maryland, where he teaches modern literature and literary theory. The Contributors: Bernadette Mayer, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, Rosmarie Waldrop, Harry Mathews, David Bergman, John Taggart, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, C.D. Wright, Barrett Watten, Albert Cook, Robert Creeley, Stephen Rodefer, Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, Joan Retallack, Nicole Brossard, Carolyn Forché, Bob Perelman, John Ashbery.