Calvin Bedient, is the co-editor of Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion, and the author of several books of literary criticism (including He Do the Police in Different Voices: the Waste Land and its Protagonist and The Yeats Brothers), as well as of poetry (Candy Necklace, The Violence of the Morning, Days of Unwilling, and The Multiple). His collection The Breathing Place is forthcoming from Omnidawn.

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