The Future of an Illusion - by Rush Rankin (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION investigates the author's impending death as an aesthetic dilemma with ironic implications.

The Future of an Illusion is a gorgeous collection, delving into the essentials of life and death in a voice that is both intimate and ethereal. The refrains woven into the poems are subtly haunting. The depth of feeling swells into striking philosophical observations. Entwining strands of narrative, lyric, and meditation, The Future of an Illusion feels completely at home in its own idiom, moving not in opposition to poetic conventions, but on another plane.

About the Author

In addition to one book on aesthetics, In Theory, the poet has published three books of poetry: Pascal's Other Wager (2006), Bene-Diction (winner of The Vassar Miller Prize, 2003), and The Failure of Grief. Here's a few of the many magazines in which the author has appeared: New American Writing, Antioch Review, Paris Review, The Yale Review, Triquarterly, Pleiades, Mudfish, Gargoyle, Confrontation, and Hotel America. The poet's academic degrees are from Duke University, The University of North Carolina, and The Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa. He has taught English at Virginia Tech, the U. of Iowa, the U. of Missouri at Columbia, the Kansas City Art Institute, and the U. of Missouri at Kansas City.