In Season And Out Of Season

About the Book

About the Author

Gustav W. Petrusz is a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, where he taught Western Philosophy, Logic and Ethics for over 25 years. Twice he was awarded the National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship, first to Princeton University and later to Yale. Holding graduate degrees from US and overseas Universities, he is also a member of the New York Academy of Science. His first university education abroad was in Civil Engineering. He enjoys talking with anyone about topics in Philosophy, Literature and Theology. Writers he frequently returns to include Homer, Dante, Dostoevsky, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Milton, Plato, Wittgenstein, Paul Tillich, Simone Weil and the French Symbolist Poets. He has been called, by some who know him, a polyglot and a polymath. His favourite entertainment includes listening to Classical Music and Country Western. Watching Western Movies, the Flintstones cartoon, Green Acres, Gunsmoke is also part of his past time. These shows, Petrusz maintains, are filled with social commentaries. Petrusz believes that despite the relative comfortable life we enjoy in Western Societies, a deep longing remains in each of us for permanence, for wholeness, for the “peace that passes all understanding.” Wallace Stevens’s female protagonist in Sunday Morning confesses, “But in contentment I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.” These poems express that longing need and the search for its fulfillment. From his poem Anamnesis, these lines: “Le Paradis n’est pas artificiel, L’Enfer non plus.” "Yet in alienation, the wondering Soul remembered The lost Glory that was once its bestowed raiment."