As an essayist, his attention is wide-ranging, and his 2010 book, The Poetics of Trespass, deals with everything from the environmental art of Robert Smithson to the Paris riots of 2005, from the work of American poet James Schuyler to the research of contemporary physicists, from building projects in Dubai to the films of director Wong Kar-Wai. Educated at the Universities of Michigan and Denver, and at Naropa University’s Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Anderson has also published extensively as a poet and book critic. Graffiti in Braille Book Release Party