Poetry. "Stein has found a channel to his own imagination. When his mind is moving and seizing the gorgeous or gritty images as they wind upward in the spine or shiver from the brain, he carries the reader effortlessly into his discoveries."—Bill Zavatsky

Author City: BARRYTOWN, NY USA

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.