Bob Perelman
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Bob Perelman in 2008.
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Robert Lawrence Perelman December 2, 1947 Youngstown, Ohio |
| Residence | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Iowa Writers' Workshop. University of California at Berkeley |
| Occupation | Poet, literary critic, professor |
| Website | http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/perelman/ |
Bob Perelman (born December 2, 1947) is an American poet, critic, editor, and teacher. He was an early exponent of the Language poets, an avant-garde movement, originating in the 1970s. He has helped shape a "formally adventurous, politically explicit poetic practice in the United States," according to one of his chroniclers. Perelman is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Lawrence Perelman was born in 1947 to Mark and Evelyn Perelman. His father was a Youngstown, Ohio businessman and his mother had worked as a social worker. He was one of two siblings—a year and a half younger than his sister, Nancy.
He attended the Putney School in Putney, Vermont from 1959, graduating in 1964—in the same class as his sister. Next, he attended the University of Rochester as a prospective concert pianist. There he changed his major from music and focused on his other strength, classical literature, having determined that he did not have a future in music. He then transferred to the University of Michigan to pursue that field in 1966. In 1969, he moved to Iowa City, Iowa to pursue his interest in poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received a Master of Fine Arts. He returned to Michigan to obtain a Master of Arts in Greek and Latin. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
In 1975 Perelman married then Cambridge, Massachusetts artist, Francie Shaw, after a four-year relationship. They made their home sequentially in Cambridge, Hills, Iowa, San Francisco and, finally, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as his career progressed. They have two sons, born in 1979 and 1983. Shaw's artwork appears in many of his works and he has dedicated each one to her.
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