Leonard Schwartz is the author of The Library of Seven Readings (UDP). Other books of poetry include Heavy Sublimation (Talisman House); Salamander: A Bestiary (Chax Press), with painter Simon Carr; and If (Talisman House). Schwartz is also the author of the multi-genre books of poetics The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises (University of Arkansas Press), Language as Responsibility (Tinfish Editions), and A Flicker at the Edge of Things: Essays Towards a Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil). He edited and co-translated Benjamin Fondane’s Cine-Poems and Others (NYRB Poets), and hosts the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics, archived online at the University of Pennsylvania’s PennSound.