Teig's poems display his ability to -create surprisingmetaphors and images. These are integrated seamlessly into startlingly originalpoems, which, though often difficult, aren't inaccessible. "With Teig Icould never calculate the poem's direction," Stephen Dobyns writes in hisForeword. "Yet where the poem wound up . . . felt exactly right, while theride itself, the reading experience, gave great pleasure."Michael Teigearned his MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts, wherehe studied with Dara Wier and the late Agha Shahid Ali. He founded the literarymagazine Jubilat, which operates out of the UMass campus. Currently, he livesin Northampton, Massachusetts, where he works as a freelance writer and editorwhile continuing to run Jubilat.