Collection with a “unique and insightful flair” is “an excitingly different read”
For immediate release
Contact: Maggie Ardiente, mardiente@americanhumanist.org, 202-238-9088 x116
(Washington, DC – Sep. 23, 2013) – An original multimedia collection of lauded humanist poetry is the latest offering from Humanist Press, the expanding publishing arm of the American Humanist Association. Questions About God from humanist poet Stephen Perry, being released today, is being called “. . . an excitingly different read” by the New York Journal of Books, as well as “challenging and thought-provoking,” by Midwest Book Review, concluding that “Questions About God delves into fundamental mysteries with a unique and insightful flair.” The ebook contains 25 of the author’s creative photos and photo montages, as well as his dramatic reading of a number of poems, including the 121-line title poem.
Stephen Perry’s boundary-shattering poems feature many diverse voices. Complex, unpredictable narrators like Perry are rare in poetry, but even rarer is his range of subject matter, drawing on philosophy, science, history, etymology, archeology, psychology, poetry, sexuality, music, etc., in fact anything of human interest. Award-winning poet Frank X. Gaspar tells readers to “be prepared for a maelstrom ride through art, religion, philosophy, sexuality—in fact all things human, where categories break down and images meld into new relationships with one another.”
Perry’s Questions About Godcombines world mythologies of an astonishing range—from Greek to Judeo-Christian, from Hindu to Buddhist, even flirting with American Indian Blackfoot lore—coalescing all into a synthesis of science and myth in a grand celebration of the natural world. The perspective is wholly humanist, of interest to skeptics and agnostics and atheists and all those who distain the absurdities, crudities, and cruelties of a simplistic fundamentalist mindset.
Questions About God is now available as a paperback (ISBN: 978-0-931779-35-0) and as an ebook (ISBN: 978-0-931779-34-3) from HumanistPress.com. The ebook is also available from major online ebook retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Perry lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife Susan K. Perry, the author of the Humanist Press novel Kylie’s Heel and the Los Angeles Times bestsellerWriting in Flow. Their website is BunnyApe.com.
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