Hamilton Books
Pages: 186
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Trim: 7 x 10¼
978-0-7618-5576-7 • Paperback • September 2011 • $47.99 • (£37.00)
Steven Carter, the only two-time winner of Italy's coveted Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize, served as a Senior Fulbright Fellow at two Polish universities. In 2010 he was awarded the Eric Hoffer Foundation's Montaigne Medal grand prize for his book of essays Devotions to the Text. He is emeritus professor of English at CSU, Bakersfield.
To their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgment. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done, all in the diffidence that faltered. . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by.
— Edwin J. Barton, Bakersfield College
Exquisite.
— Glenn Lucke, University of Virginia
Steven Carter's triumph is to have established a sort of universal ethic of 'how to be,' while promoting at the same time a holistic view of human beings in individual social, cultural, and psychological contexts.
— Amelia de Moura Tavares, University of Lisbon
Steven Carter has acquitted himself well.
— James Geary, author of All Aphorisms, All The Time and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists