No Time for Dancing (Acme Poem Company Chapbook)
Adam Hammer was born in 1948 in New Jersey, where he became a high school baseball star. He later studied at Emerson College, the University of Massachusetts, the University of California Santa Barbara, Colorado State University, and Bowling Green State University, from which he received a PhD in Popular Culture. His books areOn a Train Sleeping(Barn Dream Press/Pym-Randall Press, 1970) andDeja Everything(Lynx House Press, 1979). With Yusef Komunyakaa, he was co-founder of the literary journalGumbo, which he edited for several years in the late 1970s. A wild, irreverent, and totally original person, he died in an automobile accident in 1984.