[1] She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial comments linking New Formalism with Reaganism.

She studied at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

[2] Her early writings were considered part of the deep image movement that also included the works of Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, and Clayton Eshleman, among others.

Her poetry career began in New York City, where she moved with La Monte Young in 1960.

In 2022, Black Sparrow Press published an expanded edition of The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems titled Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch: The Complete Motorcycle Betrayal Poems.