Boyer Rickel is the author of remanence (Parlor Press, 2008), Taboo, a memoir in essays (Wisconsin, 1999), arreboles (Wesleyan, 1991), and a poetry chapbook, reliquary (Seven Kitchens Press, 2009). Poems from a new manuscript, Metaleptic, have been published recently or are forthcoming in Eleven Eleven, Free Verse, The Gettysburg Review, The Laurel Review, NO/ON (Journal of the Short Poem), No Tell Motel, Phati’tude, and Transom.