Loren Goodman was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University with an AB in philosophy and went on to study at the University of Arizona (MFA, poetry) and State University of New York, Buffalo (MA, English literature).

“Famous last words for this terrific book are hard to come by but one such would be ‘Wonderful!’ Loren Goodman has made a veritable masterpiece out of leftover formulae for writing quite other stuff indeed. Famous Americans ismy kind of people.”—Robert Creeley, author of Just in Time, Poems 1984–1994

Loren Goodman was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University with an AB in philosophy and went on to study at the University of Arizona (MFA, poetry) and State University of New York, Buffalo (MA, English literature).

“Famous last words for this terrific book are hard to come by but one such would be ‘Wonderful!’ Loren Goodman has made a veritable masterpiece out of leftover formulae for writing quite other stuff indeed. Famous Americans ismy kind of people.”—Robert Creeley, author of Just in Time, Poems 1984–1994

Loren Goodman was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University with an AB in philosophy and went on to study at the University of Arizona (MFA, poetry) and State University of New York, Buffalo (MA, English literature).

“Famous last words for this terrific book are hard to come by but one such would be ‘Wonderful!’ Loren Goodman has made a veritable masterpiece out of leftover formulae for writing quite other stuff indeed. Famous Americans ismy kind of people.”—Robert Creeley, author of Just in Time, Poems 1984–1994