Peter QuartermainPeter Quartermain taught modernist poetry and poetics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada for over thirty years, until retiring in 1999. He has had a major impact on poetic scholarship in English; his work brings together late 0th century English-language avant-garde poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. He is the author of Basil Bunting, Poet of the North (1990), Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge U Press, 1992) and Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde (U Alabama Press, 2013). He edited two volumes of the collected works of Robert Duncan - Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays (U California Press, 2019) and Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays (U California Press, 2019) and edited, with Richard Caddel, Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (Wesleyan U Press, 1999) and, with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (U Alabama Press, 1999). Read More Read Less