Rush Rankin

RUSH RANKIN has poems forthcoming in The Yale review, Hanging Loose, Gyroscope Review, and Hotel America and a poem in the current issue of Confrontation. The Flexible Personahas also just published the second half of his prose poem ms, More Than Not, and nominated it for a Pushcart Prize. His book on aesthetics, In Theory (Chelsea Editions, 2006) has been added to the collections of 111 national and international libraries (including Toronto University, Cambridge University, and the National Library of Australia). The first two modest editions have sold out. Among his other books are Pascal’s Other Wager (Word Press, 2006), Bene-dictions (the Vassar Miller Prize in 2003 for UNT Press), and The Failure of Grief (Nettle Media, 2001). His writing has appeared in the following literary magazines: Antioch Review, Paris Review, Gargoyle, First intensity, Triquarterly, Rattle, december, ACM, Pleiades, Seneca Review, Epoch, 5AM, River Styx, Shenandoah, Spillway, Willow Springs, Chelsea, Mudfish, New Letters, Stand (in England), Hebeno (in Italy), Paris Magazine (in France), and others.