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Marjorie Perloff
09.28.1931 - PresentMarjorie Perloff is a critic specializing in avant-garde and experimental poetry and visual art. She taught at Stanford and the University of Southern California. Her books include Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir, and Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century.
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