About the Author

Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let's Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford UP, 2008), and he regularly contributes to such magazines as Artforum and The Boston Review. His poems have appeared in such places as Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation. He was the Spring 2012 John P. Birkelund Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.He is currently a senior lecturer at Yale University.