It was when the kind reader pointed out to me that not only had I misspelled Matthew Zapruder’s name and that of his book (which, frankly, looks alien to me in any possible spelling), but that I had also misspelled the title of my own book, that I had to concede that this here bronchitis is taking more of a toll than I’d care to admit. I’m going to give it a rest for a few days and see if I can’t push my IQ back up to a dull normal.
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
