Praise for Curses Omens Prayers
“Bill Sylvester is a terrific poet. What stands out for me is his humor, its originality. I enjoy his work enormously. Nikola Tesla fans, rejoice. Bill Sylvester’s on our side.”
— Michael Casey
“His tendency to the sententious lures you into participating by its (seemingly ingenuous) charm… As for the material – it can be pastoral, academic, fabular, socio-political. But this latter skirts the fistintheface kind of writing; it doesn’t shout, it sings…”
— Sonia Raiziss, Editor of Chelsea
About the Author
William Sylvester’s poetry has appeared in such magazines as Chelsea, Fragments, Poetry, Commonweal, Western Humanities Review, and many others. A professor of English at SUNY Buffalo, his translation of Agamemnon appears in the Bobbs-Merrill Anthology of Greek Tragedy. He directed the Electric Poetry Workshop and edited Carta Blanca. This is his first collection of poems.
