Stephen Cushman is a poet and a scholar of American literature and the Civil War. His recent books include Hothead: A Poem and The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today. He is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
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"[The book's] canny music seduces, its blasphemous wordplay titillates and shocks, and its outrageous faith utterly convinces. Cushman's rapture creates new and brilliant poetry."--Jay Rogoff "Schooled equally in Thoreau and folklore, the poems in this book are nourishing in their humor, edifying in their precision, and enlivening all around."--Maurice Manning "Keep the Feast is a joyride through the vicissitudes, ironies, and ecstasies of just about every precinct of human experience, from the quotidian exigencies of everyday life to the lessons of history to the heights of erotic and spiritual devotion."--Lisa Russ Spaar "Keep the Feast is a remarkable collection of conversational, exquisitely chiseled poems that negotiate among the secular, the physical, the imaginative, and the spiritual."--Ernest Suarez