David Lloyd, born in Dublin, is a writer and critic living in Los Angeles, California. Arc & Sill collects his five previous books of poetry: Taropatch (Oakland: Jimmy's House of Knowledge, 1985), Coupures (Dublin: hardPressed Poetry, 1987), Change of State (Berkeley: Cusp Books, 1993), Sill (Los Angeles: Cusp Books, 2006), and Vega (Los Angeles: Mind Made Books, 2009). As a critic, he works on Irish literature and culture and on poetry and aesthetics. His most recent critical book is Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity, 1800–2000: The Transformation of Oral Space ( Cambridge , 2011). He is also the editor of Cusp Books, a chapbook press based in Los Angeles.