Ben Mirov grew up in Northern California. He is the author of Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011) Ghost Machine, (Caketrian, 2010) and the chapbooks I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010) Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010). Book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjEfQQ...
There is a poem called "The Hole in My Friends Where Ben Mirov Should Be."There is also a poem about James Tate swimming and some odd allusions to Frost and Keats and Joseph Conrad. Whenever I read Ben Mirov, my head starts to swim with ideas and otherwise-elusive slivers of life. That's why I will always read him.