BRUCE ANDREWS is the author of more than 40 books of poetry, most recently, Swoon Noir (2007), Designated Heartbeat (2006), and Lip Service (2001). His essays on poetics are collected in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis (1996). He co-edited L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E with Charles Bernstein between 1978 and 1982. He is married to the choreographer Sally Silvers, and lives in New York. Since 1975, he has taught Political Science at Fordham University, with a focus on US imperialism, global capitalism, conspiracy theory, and covert politics.