Kent Johnson is an American poet, critic, editor, and translator. He has published more than two dozen collections of work in relation to poetics. While his writing crosses a range of tones, styles, and genres, he is widely regarded as one of the most prominent and controversial practitioners of satire and institutional critique in contemporary U.S. poetry.
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