Marjorie Perloff, whose incisive readings of avant-garde artists like Ezra Pound, John Cage and John Ashbery made her one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary poetry, died on March 24 at her home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 92.

Professor Perloff, who spend the latter part of her career at Stanford University, made her name as a forceful advocate for experimental poetry, reaching back to early 20th-century writers like Pound and Gertrude Stein and embracing more recent movements like Language Poetry and conceptual poetry.

Throughout her life and even after she took emeritus status from her academic work, she wrote essays, reviews and books, including a translation of notebooks that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein kept during WWI. A few weeks before her death, a new translation of Wittgenstein’s Tractus Logico-Philosophicus was published with a foreword by Professor Perloff.