About the Author

Marjorie Perloff is professor of English emerita at Stanford University and the author or editor of many books, including Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary and The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"Unoriginal Genius showcases, yet again, why Marjorie Perloff is the Peggy Guggenheim for the avant-garde in poetry. She demonstrates why lauded, modern poets (many of whom have questioned the values of both 'the original' and 'the creative') might prefer instead to 'cheat' on their assignments by handing in poems that steal words and remix lines, verbatim, from the databases of the dejadit. I recommend that every genius read this omnibus - then copy its poetics." - Christian Bok, University of Calgary"