Poetry. Asian Studies. In this his tenth book of poetry, Crusz attempts to track and document his faltering human journey towards God and the Divine. Eschewing profound theological and philosophical abstractions, he keeps his story squarely within its human context, but not without shades of Bhakti philosophy in the personal love of God and the mischief and the frailty of the human lover . . . His story is the Augustinian Confessions retold with variations. As always, the work bears ample evidence of Crusz's unerring gift for language and brilliant image. "Arguably the best living Sri Lankan poet in English"--World Literature Today.

Author City: TORONTO, ON CAN

Rienzi Crusz was born in Sri Lanka and came to Canada in 1965. Educated at the Universities of Ceylon, London (England), Toronto, and Waterloo. He has widely published in magazines in Canada and the United States, and is the author of ten previous collections of poetry.