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In The Upside-Down Buddha: Parables & Fables, Steven Carter continues to breathe new life into two of the world's oldest art forms. By turns hilarious, poignant, and profound, the entries in The Upside-Down Buddha are certain to instruct and entertain a diverse modern audience.

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Perfect little stories. -- Alex Stein, co-editor of Short Flights: 25 Aphorists Steven Carter has acquitted himself well. -- James Geary, author of the New York Times bestseller The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism and Geary's Guide to the World's 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 Exquisite. -- Glenn Lucke, University of Virginia 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 Praise for Steven Carter's previous book, Judgment of the Crows: I have Judgment of the Crows on my night table and read twenty or so pages a night... The work is smooth and wonderfully convoluted ... mysteriously complex and completely delightful. -- Thomas Cobb, award-winning author of Crazy Heart and Shavetail

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

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Steven Carter, the only two-time winner of Italy's coveted Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize, served as a Senior Fulbright Fellow at two Polish universities. In 2010 he was awarded the Montaigne Medal grand prize in the Eric Hoffer Awards competition. He is emeritus professor of English at CSU, Bakersfield.

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