Andrew Joron is the author of Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010) and The Sound Mirror, a collection of poems published by Flood Editions in 2008. The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. He has recently translated, from the German, The Perpetual Motion Machine by proto-Dada fantasist Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press, 2011). Joron lives in Berkeley, California.