She is a poetry critic and professor emeriti of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her work has been especially concerned with explicating the writing of experimental and avant-garde poets and relating it to the major currents of modernist and, especially, postmodernist activity in the arts, including the visual arts and cultural theory.

Perloff's books include Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy, The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir, Poetry On and Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions, Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, Poetic License: Studies in the Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric, "The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, and The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition.

Link: http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=238

Selected Bibliography:
Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy
The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir
Poetry On and Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasion
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
Poetic License: Studies in the Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric

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