Editorial: "Stephen Rodefer was an innovative, singular American writer--a student of Charles Olson's often associated with the Language poets but whose eclectiv, energetic verse defies categorization and embraces a worldly lyricism all Rodefer's own."
"Four Lectures was first published in 1982 by Geoffrey Young's legendary press, The Figures, and has been long out of print. It is a book of four long poems that explore the radical possibilities of language through a generous, intimate collage of sights and sounds, voices and images, drawn from the poet's world."