<DIV><B>Michael Benedikt</b> (1935–2007), who has been occasionally grouped with the New York School poets, published five books of poetry in his lifetime, and edited several anthologies, including the influential <I>The Prose Poem</i> (1976) and <I>The Poetry of Surrealism</i> (1974). This collection brings together for the first time work from all five of those long out-of-print volumes, along with work from his five unpublished manuscripts, which were nearly destroyed after his death. Finally, this once widely published and influential voice is back in print, and a fuller understanding of the development of American surrealism and the prose poem in the 1960s and 1970s is possible. A lifelong New Yorker, Benedikt was at various times an associate editor with <I>Art News</i> and <I>Art International</i>, managing editor of <I>Locus Solus</i>, and poetry editor of the <I>Paris Review</i>. Benedikt also taught at institutions such as Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Vassar, and Boston University.</div>