Bob Perelman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bob Perelman

Poet, literary critic, editor, teacher

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1947

Place of Birth: Youngstown, Ohio, United States

Profession: poet, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Bob Perelman (born December 2, 1947) 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 professor of English emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.