17 Facts About Bob Perelman

Bob Perelman was born on December 2,1947 and is an American poet, critic, editor, and teacher.

Bob Perelman was an early exponent of the Language poets, an avant-garde movement, originating in the 1970s.

Bob Perelman has helped shape a "formally adventurous, politically explicit poetic practice in the United States", according to one of his chroniclers.

Robert Lawrence Bob Perelman was born in 1947 to Mark and Evelyn Bob Perelman.

Bob Perelman's father was a Youngstown, Ohio businessman and his mother had worked as a social worker.

Bob Perelman then transferred to the University of Michigan to pursue that field in 1966.

Bob Perelman returned to Michigan to obtain a Master of Arts in Greek and Latin.

In 1975 Bob Perelman married then Cambridge, Massachusetts artist, Francie Shaw, after a four-year relationship.

Bob Perelman started his teaching career in 1975 with appearances at Hobart College, Northeastern University, and Cambridge Adult Education.

Bob Perelman made teaching appearances at the University of Iowa, and King's College, London between 1996 and 1998.

Bob Perelman was part of a poetic movement in the San Francisco Bay Area ca.

Contributors in a 2002 Jacket magazine feature on Bob Perelman discussed aspects of his work.

Bob Perelman wrote two works of literary criticism in book form, The Trouble with Genius, which examines the antecedents of the Language writing movement, and The Marginalization of Poetry, which comments in verse form on the history and historiography of that movement.

Bob Perelman's 1994 book, The Trouble with Genius, is a literary critique of his modernist forerunners, Pound, Joyce, Stein and Zukofsky.

Bob Perelman suggests that Perelman has overcome this contradiction in his own writing, despite his efforts to maintain the high standard of his antecedents.

Bob Perelman explained of his 1996 versified critique and guide to the Language poetry movement, The Marginalization of Poetry, that he was addressing academics, poets, and those unfamiliar with Language writing and that he "wanted to write criticism that was poetry and poetry that was criticism".

Bob Perelman responded to the issue of whether he was somehow compromised by his move into an academic environment, when he wrote:.