Bob Perelman lived for many years in San Francisco where he edited
Hills
magazine and was influential in the
growing language poetry movement. From 1977 to 1981 he coordinated the San
Francisco Talks Series and
edited Writing/Talks (1985) gathered from the series. His books of
poetry
include Braille (Ithaca House,
1975), Face Value (Roof Books, 1988), and Virtual Reality
(Roof Books,
1993). He is also the author of
two important books of theory and criticism, The Trouble with
Genius
(University of California, 1994), and
The Marginalization of Poetry (Princeton, 1996). He lives in
Philadelphia,
where he is a Professor of English
at the University of Pennsylvania.
