Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics

Joel Bettridge is the author of two books of poetry, That Abrupt Here and Presocratic Blues as well as the critical study, Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith. He co-edited, with Eric Selinger, Ronald Johnson: Life and Works. He is an Associate Professor of English at Portland State University.