Heath Guide to Poetry by David Bergman

Professor of English at Towson University, David Bergman has written or edited over twenty volumes, including Gaiety Transfigured: LGBT Self-Representation in American Literature and The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Creation of Gay Culture. He is also the editor of Reported Sightings by John Ashbery and The Violet Quill Reader by John Ashbery. Bergman won the Lambda Literary Award for Men on Men 2000, as well as the George Elliston Poetry Prize for Cracking the Code, the first of four poetry collections. His work has published in American Literary History, American Literature, and Raritan, among other publications.