The Gods of Rapture: Poems in the Erotic Mood - Softcover

Kowit, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976580136 ISBN 13: 9780976580133

Publisher: San Diego City Works Press, 2006

Synopsis

Steve Kowit is one of the best-known poets in San Diego, with an enormous following. The poems are based on the ancient amatory poems of India written in Sanskrit. Art?drawings, portraits, sketches?accompany the poems throughout the text.

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About the Author

Born in New York in the 1930s, Steve Kowit was part of the Lower East Side poetry-reading scene in the early 1960s; later, attracted by the intellectual freedom of the Beat poets, he moved to San Francisco s Haight Ashbury. Celebrated for his electrifying readings, he taught at San Diego State, San Diego City College, UC San Diego, and the College of Southern Idaho. He edited the anthology The Maverick Poets, translated a volume of Pablo Neruda s political poetry, wrote two collections inspired by the love poetry of India, and published eight other volumes of poetry. His work appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Steve described himself as a poet, essayist, teacher, workshop facilitator, and all-around no good troublemaker. Recently retired from Southwestern College in Chula Vista but still holding poetry workshops in San Diego, he died in his sleep in 2015 at home with his wife, Mary, in Potrero, CA, just days before his latest volume of poetry was published by Tampa University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976580136
• ISBN 13: 9780976580133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120