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bob perelman in 2008 . http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/perelman/ youngstown , ohio united states bob perelman 02 december 1947 philadelphia , pennsylvania file : bob perelman in 2008.jpg bob perelman
 robert lawrence perelman poet , literary critic , professor university university of california at berkeley of michigan , iowa writers ' workshop .
bob perelman

bob perelman -lrb- born december 2 , 1947 in youngstown , ohio -rrb- 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 .
