Dustin Stewart's Futures of Enlightenment Poetry begins its argument on its cover...A lithe Christ refuses the tempting banquet and its beckoning revelers, while a bearded Satan floats in the fiery plane above, his look of fear dividing the scene and providing a counterpoint to Christ's determined gaze...He reframes the story of Enlightenment poetry through the cycles of this push and pull, which leave neither spirit nor matter quite the same.
Dustin D. Stewart is an Assistant Professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin and held academic posts in Atlanta and Colorado Springs before moving to New York City. Futures of Enlightenment Poetry is his first book.