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In a galloping lyric form all its own, Instants tells
the fragmented story of a crime of passion committed by motion-obsessed
Victorian photographer Eadward Muybridge, inventor of the
zoopraxiscope, precursor to the filmstrip.
Philip Metres is a poet and translator of Russian poetry whose
work has appeared in numerous journals and in Best American Poetry
(2002). His previous books include Primer for Non-Native
Speakers (a chapbook, Kent State 2004), A Kindred Orphanhood:
Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (Zephyr 2003), and
Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein (Ugly
Duckling Press2004). He has received fellowships from Thomas
J. Watson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Ledig
House, and the Ohio Arts Council. He is an assistant professor
of English at John Carroll University, where he teaches American
Literature and Creative Writing.
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