ISBN: 0-88739-265-2
112 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $15.00
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After Modigliani
A Donald S. Ellis Book
Stephen Kessler
Widely acclaimed as a translator of Spanish and Latin American writers, well known on the West Coast as an essayist and critic, distinguished in Northern California as an editor and journalist, Stephen Kessler is first of all a poet whose work has appeared in small-press publications across the United States since the late 1960's.
After Modigliani is his fifteenth book of poetry or translation 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.
Review: "No one is better at delineating our love-hate relation to modern life and urban dissonance than Stephen Kessler. He catches with perfect precision the mad contradictions we embrace everyday."
-Carolyn Kizer
"Kessler, a language rogue, a bard of solitude and singer for a greater harmony, delivers the breakdown, the soulmix of a civilization on the edge, a word runner cutting through the Phenomena into the grave pleasures of the Real."
-Juan Felipe Herrera
Bio: STEPHEN KESSLER grew up in Beverly Hills and earned a BA in Languages and Literature (UCLA) and MA in Literature (UC Santa Cruz). After Modigliani is the first full-size collection of poems Kessler has published since his book, Living Expenses.
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