Leopards in the Temple

Steven Carter is the author of five books of literary and cultural criticism, including Bearing Across: Studies in Literature and Science (University Press of America, 2002). In 1989 he was awarded the Schachterle Prize by the National Society for Literature and Science. In 2001 he became the only two-time winner of Italy's coveted Nuove Lettere International Poetry and Literature Prize. A former Senior Fulbright Fellow at two Polish universities, Professor Carter teaches at California State University, Bakersfield.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 Foreword by Arthur J. SpringChapter 3 PrefaceChapter 4 Prologue: The Poetry of NightChapter 5 The Horror and Splendor of "Radiant Appearing:" Notes from the Shadow of ChernobylChapter 6 The Descent of John Henry's HammerChapter 7 Romancing the Apocalypse, or: Why We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the BombChapter 8 Charles is an Angel of GoodnessChapter 9 "The Beauty of Her Vault"Chapter 10 Avatars of the TurtlesChapter 11 Intermission: The Two InfinitesChapter 12 Barbie and Jane vs. the Wooden Nutmegs of ConnecticutChapter 13 Surviving the FallChapter 14 Are We Having Fun Yet?Chapter 15 "Paper or Plastic?" "You Decide"Chapter 16 Mythopoesis and the MarketplaceChapter 17 Expecting the BarbariansChapter 18 Leopards in the TempleChapter 19 Selected BibliographyChapter 20 Index

Fiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Steven Carter presents in this most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining book.