The Hierarchy of the Pavilions is Ben Mazer's tenth collection of poetry. Mazer was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney, and took his MA and Ph.D in Critical Editing and Textual Scholarship under Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett at the Editorial Institute at Boston University. Mazer has edited The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press), and Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press), and is currently editing The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz for Farrar, Straus & Giroux.