On the back cover and internet, it is stated that David A. Colon teaches literature at Texas Christian University. He received his Ph.D. in English from Stanford University, where he wrote a dissertation on the transformation of the trope of the Chinese written character as a medium for poetry from Imagism to Concretism. His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Score, Latino Stuff Review, The Stanford Black Arts Quarterly, and elsewhere. His work in poetics and poetry criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Cultural Critique, The Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies, How2, Hispanet Journal, MELUS, Studies in American Culture, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics. He was born and raised in Brooklyn and now lives in Fort Worth. David says: "These visual poems treat letters and words as a palette from which familiar (and defamiliarized) images are conjured. Negative space is a counterpoint to the designs, suggesting a visual representation of silence: the same silence that verse poets use as the canvas on which they paint their melodies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.