Poetry. Widely acclaimed as a translator, essayist, critic, editor, and journalist, Stephen Kessler is first of all a poet, whose work has appeared in small press publications across the U.S. since the late 1960s. AFTER MODIGLIANI is his fifteenth book and his first collection of poems to be published in twenty years. Its sixty poems generously display the author's lyric intensity, ironic wit, clarity of vision, and range of imagination. Urban and natural landscapes, social and political realities, sexual love, memory, ...
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Poetry. Widely acclaimed as a translator, essayist, critic, editor, and journalist, Stephen Kessler is first of all a poet, whose work has appeared in small press publications across the U.S. since the late 1960s. AFTER MODIGLIANI is his fifteenth book and his first collection of poems to be published in twenty years. Its sixty poems generously display the author's lyric intensity, ironic wit, clarity of vision, and range of imagination. Urban and natural landscapes, social and political realities, sexual love, memory, mortality, and consciousness itself are explored here with a sharp eye, a musical ear, and a crisply contemporary voice. These soul-deep, introspective songs by Stephen Kessler wax strongly of the philosophical, the nostalgic, and an acceptance of life's complexities tingled with a quiet rag -- this book is an 'alchmical' work of passion -- Wanda Coleman.
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