Bruce Whiteman is a poet, reviewer and translator (French, Latin) who lives in Grinnell, IA. His recent books include The Invisible World Is in Decline, Books I-VI (ECW Press, 2006) and a translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, a fourth-century poem (Russell Maret, 2009). His current projects include a book of poems entitled Tablature and a translation of Francis Jammes’ Elegies. A chapbook of prose poems, Wretched in This Alone, is due out this year.

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