DONALD KUSPIT'S NEW POEMS ASTOUND AND INSPIRE

Added: (Thu Jun 03 2010)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Donald Kuspit's new poems subtly explore our obsession with myth. THE GODS AND OTHER BEINGS comprises five suites of poems and three individual poems. Donald Kuspit, art critic and poet, is Distinguished Professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was previously A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

"Donald Kuspit, one of the most highly regarded art critics in the world today, is a gifted and accomplished poet, which may come as a surprise to many art world insiders (and outsiders). His poems bear a similar weightiness to that of his scholarly and poignantly analytical art criticism. In his most recent poems, however, there is an acknowledgment and embracing of a cosmic love that moves beyond this intellect. In a number of poems from 'The Gods' series, we hear Kuspit speaking to a lover, a higher power, an entity, one who is beyond the self, beyond art. We are privy to an intimate conversation about love, death, loss, darkness, the erotic, the transcendent. These 'discreet' poems by Donald Kuspit are soulful and reflective, and are moving testaments of a life lived." -- Rosalyn Schwartz, Professor of Art, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Gods and Other Beings
by Donald Kuspit
ISBN 9780956103871
100 Pages
Paperback 20 x 13 cms
£8.95

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