Michel Delville is a writer and musician born in Liege, Belgium. He is the author of The American Prose Poem; J.G. Ballard; Hamlet & Co (with Pierre Michel); Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism (with Andrew Norris); Food, Poetry, and the Art of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde, and many other essays pertaining to comparative poetics and interdisciplinary studies. He teaches literature at the University of Liege, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. His awards as a writer and essayist include the SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, the Leon Guerin Prize and the 2001 Alumni Award of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. As a musician, he has recorded and toured extensively with various bands such as The Wrong Object and Alex Maguire Sextet, as well as high-profile jazz and rock musicians including Elton Dean, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead and Ed Mann. He was recently signed to the New York-based label Moonjune Records (www.moonjune.com).
