Circling the Canon, Volume I: The Selected Book Reviews of Marjorie Perloff, 1969–1994 (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)

Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff's career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht's The Hard Hours.

Marjorie Perloff is the author and editor of twenty books, including Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy and 21st-Century Modernism: The New Poetics. She is a Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities emerita at Stanford University.

David Jonathan Bayot is the coauthor or editor of twenty-two books, including Marjorie Perloff's Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays and Deconstruction After All: Reflections and Conversations. He is the Go Kim Pah Professor of Chinese Literature at De La Salle University and the executive publisher of De La Salle University Publishing House.