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Bob Perelman

Bob Perelman (born 1947) is an American poet and literary critic.

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Bob Perelman (born December 2, 1947 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American poet, critic, editor and teacher. He was an early exponent of the Language poets, an avant-garde movement, originating in the 1970s. He has helped shape a "formally adventurous, politically explicit poetic practice in the United States," according to one of his chroniclers. Perelman is Professor of English at the University of

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Bob Perelman studied at University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley and University of Rochester. The recorded working language is English.

Residence is recorded at Philadelphia. Employment is recorded with University of Pennsylvania.

Distinctions recorded are Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

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