Awards

• Winner of 16.95.

Overview

The second installment of Steven Carter's multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of ""meetings of the minds""—dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.

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Reviews

To their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgment. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done, /all in the diffidence that faltered . . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by.--Edwin J. Barton

To their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgment. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done,/all in the diffidence that faltered . . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by. -- Edwin J. Barton, Bakersfield College Steven Carter's triumph is to have established a sort of universal ethic of 'how to be,' while promoting at the same time a holistic view of human beings in individual social, cultural, and psychological contexts. -- Amelia de Moura Tavares, University of Lisbon Fiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Steven Carter presents in his most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining works. -- Dorota Janowska, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University Steven Carter has, I believe, made an important contribution to the study of metaphysics in our time. Such a voice ought to be heard. -- Arthur J. Spring PhD, St. John's University

To their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgment. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done,/all in the diffidence that faltered ...' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by. -- Edwin J. Barton, Bakersfield College Steven Carter's triumph is to have established a sort of universal ethic of 'how to be,' while promoting at the same time a holistic view of human beings in individual social, cultural, and psychological contexts. -- Amelia de Moura Tavares, University of Lisbon Fiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Steven Carter presents in his most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining works. -- Dorota Janowska, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University Steven Carter has, I believe, made an important contribution to the study of metaphysics in our time. Such a voice ought to be heard. -- Arthur J. Spring, Saint John's University

Author Information

Steven Carter, the only two-time winner of Italy's coveted Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize, received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Arizona. He is Emeritus Professor of English at CSU, Bakersfield.

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