Joan Retallack is author of The Poethical Wager and Procedural Elegies / Western Civ Cont’d / – an Artforum Best Book of 2010. Other poetry includes Memnoir, Mongrelisme, How To Do Things With Words, Errata 5uite, and Afterrimages. She collaborated with John Cage on MUSICAGE – a volume of their conversations published by Wesleyan University Press – and has written extensively, pleasurably on Gertrude Stein.