Robert Archambeau’s books include the critical studies Inventions of a Barbarous Age: Poetry from Conceptualism to Rhyme, The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult Time and Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry as well as the poetry collections Home and Variations and The Kafka Sutra and a multigenre collaboration with John Matthias and Jean Dibble, Revolutions. He teaches at Lake Forest College.