John Emil Vincent is author of Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry (Palgrave; a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2003) and of John Ashbery and You: His Later Poems (U Georgia; forthcoming). He presently teaches English and American Studies at Wesleyan University and is working on editing a volume of criticism on the poet Jack Spicer with Wesleyan University Press. His poems have appeared in many journals including Slope, American Literary Review, and Spork