ANNE WALDMAN is the author of more than 40 books and has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects as Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of The World Compared to a Bubble, Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets) which is a book-length rhizomic meditation on evolution and endangered species, and the monumental anti-war feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press 2011). Her anthologies include Nice To See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan, The Beat Book, and co-edited collections Civil Disobediences and The Angel Hair Anthology. She is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, and recently appointed a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. holloway.english.berkeley.edu/