Bøger af Howard Stein

A Low Autumn Sun highlights the interplay between lightness and darkness, and seeks to find beauty in imperfection, in decline, in autumn colors shaded by darkness and muted by decay. When the sun is low, the world is divided into light and shadow. This is as true of the inner world as it is of the world outside. In both, indirect illumination is often the most revealing. This indirect illumination reveals the dark and the light not as two worlds, but as inseparable facets of one. This is the world of our book. The poems cover a range of subjects: the simplicity of a yellow flower on the roadside, an imperfect leaf, the impact of corporate downsizing, the loss of a parent.

Wherever there is light, there is shadow. Howard Stein's poetry deliciously depicts this inevitable duality throughout nature and life. Stein's prose has a unique rhythm, where the mundane becomes exquisite, the ordinary, extraordinary.

Under the tutelage of the World Bank, developing countries have experienced lower growth and rising inequality. This book argues that the institution is plagued by a myopic, neoclassical mindset that wrongly focuses on individual rationality and downplays the social and political contexts that can either facilitate development.