Poetry. On Kirpal Gordon's EROS IN SANSKRIT: LYRICS & MEDITATIONS 2007-1977: "In Kirpal Gordon, we have a poet who has taken into the alchemy of his own poetic language the best of the Modernist trajectory, and wresting its ecstatic, neo-mystic soul, Makes It New. This volume brings to us a riveting selection of Gordon's work over the past twenty-five years. These poems are unique, the stuff of urban-vatic vision. Reading them, I am struck again and again by their freshness, the breadth (and breath) of the poetry, the incantory sweep of the hard truths these poems bear witness to. They unfold like a many-layered lotus that has, as it will, bloomed in the 'hood" -Cynthia Hogue.

Author City: NY USA

Kirpal Gordon's freelance writing life reaches across literary genres. Author of twenty titles of his own work, he consults with and ghostwrites for speakers, seminar companies and entrepreneurs. A national award-winning poet, journalist and editor, he's also a highly praised spoken word artist. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Religious Studies and Philosophy from Fordham University at Lincoln Center, thanks to a Regents scholarship. He studied creative writing with Norman Dubie at Arizona State University, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Duncan at Naropa Institute and took his M.F.A. degree at the University of Arizona, thanks to the mentorship of Richard Shelton.