Michel Delville is a writer and musician born in Liege, Belgium. He is the author of The American Prose Poem; J.G. Ballard; Hamlet & Co (with Pierre Michel); Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism (with Andrew Norris); Food, Poetry, and the Art of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde, and many other essays pertaining to comparative poetics and interdisciplinary studies. He teaches literature at the University of Liege, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. His awards as a writer and essayist include the SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outs...