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Jeff Dolven

Jeff Dolven is an American academic and poet. He is a professor of English at Princeton University, and the author of numerous books, collections of poems and articles.

he poems in Jeff Dolven's *A New English Grammar begin from the bad sentences in traditional grammar, the ones marked with an asterisk in the handbooks. They are experiments in making a new language where the counterexample—*he had had gone, *we’ve got any milk, *he was recognizing her—can be exemplary, and therefore also experiments in imagining new worlds.

Each poem is accompanied by an exacting, authoritative, intermittently slant facing-page explanation of the rules it breaks