Bob Perelman has been one of the key figures in the Language Writing movement since its incipience in the early 1970s. As editor of Hills magazine, as curator of a long-running Talks series in the Bay Area, and as the author of over ten books of poetry, two major collections of essays on literary culture and poetics, his stance as a major writer and theorist is of indisputable importance. His writings reflect an astute sense of human folly and strong sympathy for the pathos of the human condition. holloway.english.berkeley.edu/