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I am grateful and amazed, even humbled by the time and dedication Natalia has put into understanding not only the poems but the context from which they arise. This has involved studying my personal background as well a cultural and artistic milieu spanning at least forty years of American history. Her introduction will leave the reader with a good sense of the movements and trends in U.S poetry during this time, particularly the development of language poetry and its relation to its historical and cultural moment. Natalia's introduction has even shown me, as a good critic can, things about my own work of which I was, perhaps, insufficiently aware. (Here I am thinking of the way she traces my mother's influence—however ambivalently experienced—through my eleven books in ways that put them—and me— in conversation with feminist theory).

I like to hope that, because of the generosity of Natalia Carbajosa and Carme Manuel, my poetry will be heard in new and perhaps surprising ways by readers in Spain.