Close Your Eyes, Visions

Michael Handler Ruby is a poet, literary editor and journalist. He is the author of seven other full-length poetry collections, including At an Intersection (Alef Books, 2002), Window on the City (BlazeVOX [books], 2006), The Edge of the Underworld (BlazeVOX, 2010), Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010), American Songbook (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX, 2019) and The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill Press, 2020). His trilogy in prose and poetry, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012), includes the e-books Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling, 2008) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (Argotist Online, 2011). He is also the author of the ebook Titles & First Lines (Mudlark, 2018) and five chapbooks with the Dusie Kollektiv. He co-edited Bernadette Mayer's collected early books, Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words (Station Hill, 2015), and Mayer's and Lewis Warsh's prose collaboration Piece of Cake (Station Hill, 2020). A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University's writing program, he grew up in South Orange, N.J., and lives in Brooklyn.