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Dean Rader

Dean Rader has authored or coedited 12 books, including Self-Portrait As Wikipedia Entry and Works & Days, which won the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly appeared in 2023. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.

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illustration of a washoe man hiding behind a tree in a snowy forest, staring in shock as a giant skull looms overhead—evoking the horror and historical trauma depicted in rabbit boss.

What the Washoe Saw

Thomas Sanchez’s monumental novel Rabbit Boss deserves a place in the California canon.

the cy twombly room at the san francisco museum of modern art showcases four paintings and one sculpture by the american artist

Scribbles Are Having a Moment

With three shows in New York, an exhibition in Houston, and a permanent room at SFMOMA, Cy Twombly has never been more popular.

moon, california villanelle, dean rader

Poetry: ‘California Villanelle’

Dean Rader adapts a classic poetry form for “a land of great contradictions.”