Joan Retallack is the author of six books of poetry including Memnoir, How to Do Things with Words, Afterimages, and Errata 5uite, which won the Columbia Book Award chosen by Robert Creeley. She is currently at work on an investigative poetic project: The Reinvention of Truth. Retallack is the author of Musicage: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack, published by Wesleyan University Press and recipient of the America Award in Belles-Lettres. Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, co-edited with Juliana Spahr, came out last year from Palgrave MacMillan. The Poetical Wager, a book of interrelated essays exploring the consequences of form (including that of the essay), was published in 2004 by the University of California Press which is also bringing out her Gertrude Stein: Selections. A collection of Retallack's procedural poems will come out from Roof Books in 2008. She has received a Lannan Literary Grant for Poetry and is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. Season Six | Home