Poetry. HOT WAX, OR, PSYCHE'S DRIP is a long poem germinated in if not completely hatched in the toreador momentum of the Dark Reagan Era when the author was living in Los Angeles, immersed in the study of cybernetics and information theory, and noticing in peripheral vision the citywide micro-explosion of the porn industry which has now overtaken the planet, "churning away in Tinker Bell's Hard Drive."

Author City: ATHENS, GA USA

Jed Rasula is Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia since 2001, having previously taught at Queen's University in Canada and Pomona College in California. His PhD is from the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of several books of poetry—TABULA RASULA (1986), HOT WAX, OR, PSYCHE'S DRIP (2007), and a completed manuscript, Sophisticated Boom Boom—was editor of the poetry magazine Wch Way (1976-1983), and served on the editorial board of Sulfur (1986-1990). Scholarly publications include The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects 1940- 1990 (1996), This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry (2002), Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in American Poetry (2004), and two books in press, The Shadow Mouth: Studies in Poetic Inspiration, and Lower Frequencies: Genre and Extravagance in the Novel. Rasula is co-editor, with Steve McCaffery, of Imagining Language: An Anthology (1998), and co-editor, with Tim Conley, BURNING CITY: POEMS OF METROPOLITAN MODERNITY (2012).