Timothy Steele is Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. He has published several collections of poems, including The Color Wheel (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1994) and Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986 (U. of Arkansas Press, 1995). He is also the author of two books of literary criticism, Missing Measures (U. of Arkansas Press, 1990) and All the Fun�s in How You Say a Thing (Ohio U. Press, 1999). He has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. (2001)