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Maria Damon teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry , and coauthor of The Secret Life of Words (with Betsy Franco) and Literature Nation (with Miekal And). Michael Davidson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The San Francisco Renaissance, Ghostler Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word , and Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics . He is the editor of The New Collected Poems of George Oppen . He has published eight books of poetry. Alan Filreis is Kelly Professor of English, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Actual World (1991), Modernism from Right to Left (1994), and numerous articles on modernism and the literary left. He is editor of Ira Wolfert's Tucker's People , and Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens and Jose Rodriguez Feo . His new book is entitled The Fifties' Thirties: Anticommunism and Modern Poetry , 1945–60. Stephen Fredman has taught at the University of Notre Dame since 1980, and is presently Professor and Chair of the English Department. He is the author of three books of criticism, Poet's ... log in or subscribe to read full text