Some of his most famous works include Wharf Hypothesis; Revelator; Northern Soul; Against Conceptual Poetry; Sunset Debris; 2197; Woundwood; The Chinese Notebook; The Grand Piano: An Experiment In Collective Autobiography (with Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Rae Armantrout, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, and Ted Pearson); The Age of Huts; and The Alphabet. His other works are Manifest; Leningrad; Demo to Ink; Toner; Jones; N/O; Xing; MultiPlex (with Karen Mac Cormack); Crow; Mohawk; Nox; Ketjack; Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps; Legend (with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery); Tjanting; BART; ABC; Paradise; In the American Tree: Language, Realism, Thought; Lit; The New Sentence; and What. He was born on August 5, 1946. He attended Merritt College, San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley.