Poet and author Stephen Kuusisto has a new book out entitled Do Not Interrupt: A Playful Take on the Art of Conversation.
Stephen Kuusisto is a poet (and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop) and, in a dual faculty appointment, a teacher of creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa and a public humanities scholar at the university's Carver Center for Macular Degeneration. Kuusisto is enamored of the Greeks, who frequently drew men together (no women or slaves, alas) simply for the purpose of conversation, believing that their skills at conversing made them superior to all other groups. Kuusisto is not out to change behaviors, but he does suggest that conversation has a calming and even healing effect on human relationships, and he lists men and women he believes are among the world's greatest conversationalists. Read the book to find out who they are.
via Bookshelf/Cape Cod Online
You can also find poetry and essays by Stephen Kuusisto at his blog Planet of the Blind.
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Thank you Ruth :)
Hope all is well in your corner of the world...
Doing great, Connie :)
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