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For many years, James Scully, along with others, quietly radicalized American poetry -in theory and in practice, in how it is lived as well as in how it is written. He was born in New Haven, CT. Professor Emeritus of the University of Connecticut, he has won numerous honors, including a Lamont Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in San Francisco.

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""These poems offer a fresh image or perspective to startle and illuminate."" --Publishers Weekly|""James Scully is one of our more courageous and undaunted poets...I find Scully to be a rising dragon in a time when much poetry is suffering from an identity crisis."" --Cale Jacobsen, North Dakota Quarterly|APOLLO HELMET ""raises important questions about politics and human nature with an infectious indignation."" --Library Journal