He has degrees from Duke, Brooklyn College, and University of Arizona. Some of his mothers: Emily Dickinson, Paul Klee, Henri Michaux, Russell Edson, and Federico Garcia Lorca. His first book is The Comeback's Exoskeleton (2008). His second book, Hail, is forthcoming. Both are from Upset Press. He lives in New York with his gal, Dolores, and their boy, Axel Ray. He loves to say imperthnthn thnthnthn.