Poetry. "Judith Goldman's book makes me very uncomfortable. She is so angry and she sets up so many barriers—brackets, slashes, cross-outs and the like—that she makes reading as complicated a proposition as locating the 'ethical good' in a corrupt political climate. She restores two visions at once: the avant-garde's insistance that poetic form be politically motivated and not just 'fun,' and the conviction that freedom is possible 'only' when we admit that we are not free"—Jennifer Moxley.

Author City: BUFFALO, NY USA

Judith Goldman is the author of VOCODER (Roof Books, 2001), DEATHSTAR/RICO-CHET (O Books, 2006), "the dispossessions" (atticus/finch, 2009), and L.B.; OR, CATENARIES (Krupskaya, 2011). She co-edited the annual journal WAR AND PEACE with Leslie Scalapino from 2005-2009 and currently edits a feature on contemporary innovative poetry for the e-journal Postmodern Culture. She is a Harper Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, teaching in the arts humanities core and in creative writing. In fall 2011 she was the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at University of California, Berkeley. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Buffalo.