In a Nutshell

Bob Perelman

1996

Credo in a kind of
American jewish Hamlet-like
bagel, too round for action
yet leavened enough by contact
with the near-dead past—you call it
landscape, I call it history—to provide
a layered vantage. Round
yet curiously unconscious in the center
as if problems with royal parentage might
be dissolved by fanatic attention to
ideological…
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Bob Perelman

b. 1947

Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Bob Perelman is a poet, critic, editor, translator, and educator who is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Perelman studied Greek and Latin and attended the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1969. He is the author of more than fifteen volumes of poetry, as well as numerous critical works of prose.

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