Alan Ramón Clinton currently lectures at Santa Clara University in California.He is the author of a scholarly monograph, Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics (Peter Lang, 2004) and a volume of poetry, Horatio Algerâs Keys (BlazeVox, 2008).This fall he will appear as guest editor for a volume of 2nd Ave Poetry entitled New Poetics of Magic.