Marjorie Perloff is Sadie D. Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University and Florence Scott Professor Emerita of English at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books and articles on 20th and 21st century Poetry and Poetics, including, Frank O’Hara: Poet among Painters (1977), The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (1981), The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (1986, new edition, 1994), Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1992), Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary(1996), 21st Century Modernism (2002), and Unoriginal Genius: Writing by Other Means in the New Century (2011). Her most recent book (April 2016) is Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire, which enlarges on the theme of her 2004 memoir The Vienna Paradox.