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Nigel Alderman is Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, having previously taught at Yale University. He has published on British poetry from John Milton to Philip Larkin and has co-edited, with C. D. Blanton, Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism (The Yale Journal of Criticism , 2000). He is currently completing a book entitled, Transitional Forms , on British literature of the 1960s. C. D. Blanton is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, having previously taught at Princeton University. He writes on modernism and modern poetry generally, as well as aesthetic and cultural theory, and is currently completing a book on late modernist long poetic forms. Stephen Burt is Associate Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is the author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Graywolf, 2009), The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and Twentieth-Century Poetry (Columbia, 2007), and Randall Jarrell and His Age (Columbia, 2003); and the editor of Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (Columbia, 2005). He is also the author of Parallel Play (Graywolf, 2006), a book of poems. Eric Falci is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently completing a study of contemporary Irish poetry. Romana Huk is Associate Professor of English at the ... log in or subscribe to read full text