Marjorie Perloff
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Marjorie Perloff is a poetry critic and professor emerita of English literature at Stanford University. She is best known for her work on contemporary American poetry, and, in particular poetry associated with the avant garde. Her 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"