His scholarship explores how constructs of masculinity in particular influence the development of avant-garde poetics and poetries, notably the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain School. His books include Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010) and two collections of poetry, The Veil (Singing Horse Press, 2008) and The Epochal Body (Singing Horse Press, 2004).