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Informationen zum Autor Charles Stein was born in 1944 in New York City. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including a new verse translation of The Odyssey (North Atlantic Books, 2008), THE HAT RACK TREE: SELECTED POEMS FROM THEFORESTFORTHETREES, 1980-1983 (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 1994) and, most recently, FROM MIMIR'S HEAD: POEMS FROM THEFORESTFORTHETREES (1994-2000) (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 2011). His prose writings include Persephone Unveiled (North Atlantic Books, 2006), The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum: The Poetic Cosmology of Charles Olson & His Use of the Writings of C.G. Jung (Barrytown Limited, 1998), and GARY HILL: HAND HEARD/LIMINAL OBJECTS (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 1997), a collaborative study with George Quasha of the work of Gary Hill. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Connecticut at Storrs and lives with guitarist, choral director, photographer, and research historian, Megan Hastie in Barrytown, New York. Klappentext Poetry. FROM MIMIR'S HEAD comprises two reciprocal passes through the same terrain--a sequence of poems mostly exploring ontological matters in a variety of verse inventions, and a series of notes in a prose equally exploratory and inventive. In both, the quickly shifting diction is at once mercurial and immaculate, the images vivid and well-ordered, the structures musical and truly spoken, and the thought, if "philosophical," nonetheless sprung from the recognition of the limits of metaphysical discourse. Stein writes: "The philosopher should be discouraged in his metaphysical pretension, but the metaphysician encouraged in his poetic need."
