The Boy Who Listened To Paintings by Dean Kostos

The Boy Who Listened To Paintings by Dean Kostos

Bullied to the brink of suicide, Dean Kostos spent two years in the mental hospital where his mother had stayed. While The Boy Who Listened To Paintings addresses mental illness in adolescents, in many of its most drastic guises, it also celebrates the transformative power of art, and stresses that in the formation of our multi-faceted characters, it is perhaps the darkest and longest travails, treated with both candor and humor in this memoir, that most enduringly shape us.

Kostos, Dean: - Dean Kostos recently edited the anthology Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry (Somerset Hall, 2008); its debut reading was held at the UN. He is also the author of LAST SUPPER OF THE SENSES (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005); The Sentence That Ends with a Comma (Painted Leaf, 1999), which was required reading at Duke University; and the chapbook CELESTIAL RUST (Red Dust, 1994). He co-edited the anthology Mama's Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers (Painted Leaf, 2000), a Lambda Book Award finalist. His poems have appeared in over 200 publications. Some of the literary journals and web sites that have published his poems, translations, and personal essays include the following: Barrow Street, Big City Lit, Boulevard, Chelsea, The Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Confrontation, THE DIRTY GOAT, The Dos Passos Review, Ekphrasis, Euphony, Ginosko, The Griffin, Hubbub, Minnetonka Review, Poetry in Performance, Porcupine, Rattapallax, Red Rock Review, Southwest Review, Stand Magazine (UK), Stranger at Home, TALISMAN, VANITAS, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Western Humanities Review, ZONE 3, on Oprah Winfrey's Web site Oxygen.com, and in the anthology Reading Brokeback Mountain. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he has taught poetry writing at the Gallatin School of NYU, The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Gotham Writers' Workshop, Wesleyan, Pratt University, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, CUNY, and Berkeley College. Recipient of a Yaddo fellowship, he has served as literary judge for Columbia University's Gold Crown and Gold Circle Awards.

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ISBN 13	9781949966077
ISBN 10	1949966070
Title	The Boy Who Listened To Paintings
Author	Dean Kostos
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
Year published	2019-10-01
Number of pages	272
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