Rae Armantrout’s most recent books are Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004), The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001), and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). Les Cahiers de Royaumont published a volume of selected poems, Couverture, translated into French by Denis Dormoy, in 1991. Her poems have appeared in two French anthologies of international poetry: A Royaumont (Creaphis, 2002, and 21 + 1 Poetes americain d’ajourd’hui, (Delta, 1987).   Her poems have also been included in numerous American anthologies, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1993), American Women Poets in the 21^st Century: Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition, (Wesleyan, 2002), The Great American Prose Poem: Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003) and  The Best American Poetry of 1988, 2001, 2002, and 2004. She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego.