Jed Rasula

Jed Rasula is Helen S Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of several books of poetry—Tabula RasulaHot Wax, or Psyche’s DripSophisticated Boom Boom. Scholarly publications include The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects 1940-1990This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American PoetrySyncopations: The Stress of Innovation in American PoetryThe Shadow Mouth: Studies in Poetic InspirationLower Frequencies: Genre and Extravagance in the Novel. Rasula is co-editor, with Steve McCaffery, of Imagining Language: An Anthology (1998), and with Tim Conley, of Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity.