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Steven Carter, the only two-time winner of Italy's coveted Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize, received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Arizona. He is Emeritus Professor of English at CSU, Bakersfield.

To their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgment. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done,/all in the diffidence that faltered . . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by.