Jean-Michel Maulpoix is the author of more than twenty-five French collections of poetry in blank verse fragments and in prose, along with thirteen volumes of essay and criticism. His collection, A Matter of Blue, translated from the French by Dawn Cornelio was published by BOA in 2005. He is director of the quarterly literary journal Le Nouveau Recueil and a professor of modern and contemporary poetry at the University Paris X-Nantere. For more information about Jean-Michel Maulpoix, visit http://www.maulpoix.net/Biographie.html