A Staircase View

About the Book

A STAIRCASE VIEW: FAITH IN AMERICA is a collection of essays in culture criticism, centering on the need for a rebirth of faith in our nation, belief in America itself, its essentially Judeo-Christian and republican heritage. There is also the sense of an objective look back, from the perspective of older years, at the status of faith and/or culture in –within—our country in the modern era.

About the Author

ROBERT GREER COHN is best known for his lifetime work on Mallarmé; Michel Deguy referred to him as the “posthumous Mallarmé”. Julia Kristeva, in an article subtitled “Hommage a R.G. Cohn,” Giuseppe Ungaretti, Richard Wilbur, Philippe Sollers… His The Poetry of Rimband was deemed by Henri Peyre to be “perhaps the best study [of the poet] in any language”. He was the Founding Editor of Yale French Studies and the author of sixteen books, a two-time Guggenheim fellow; he is professor emeritus of French at Stanford University.