Marcus Boon

Marcus Boon is Associate Professor of English at York University in Toronto. He is the author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs and In Praise of Copying (both from Harvard University Press), and the editor of Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems of John Giorno, 1962-2007 and America: A Prophecy! The Sparrow Reader (both from Soft Skull). He writes about music for The Wire and blogs at inpraiseofcopying.wordpress.com.