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"In
Usable Truths, Irving Feldman joins Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Blake, Emerson and a handful of other epigrammatists who alert us, with their laconic wit and wisdom, to the mansions that the mind can build in and from the smallest rooms of incisive thought. These nuggets contain a trove of riches." --Willard Spiegelman, Hughes Professor of English, Emeritus, at Southern Methodist University
About the author
Born in Coney Island, New York and educated at CCNY and Columbia University, Irving Feldman taught at the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Lyon and Kenyon College before his appointment to SUNY at Buffalo in 1964--from which he retired as Distinguished Professor of English in 2004. He has received a National Institute of Arts and Letters award and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Feldman's twelve books of poems include
Works and Days (1961), winner of the Kovner Poetry Prize of the Jewish Book Council;
The Pripet Marshes (1965) and
Leaping Clear (1976), finalists for the National Book Award;
All of Us Here (1986), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award;
Beautiful False Things (2000); and
Collected Poems 1954-2004 (2004).
