Hermit's Kiss

A debut collection of poems from the widely acclaimed author of The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin, winner of the prestigious Harold Ribalow Prize (U.S.) for the best novel of 1999, and hailed by both the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Toronto Star as one of the finest books of that year. "The Hermit's Kiss," (the title piece in this collection) is the story of Saint Roch, patron saint of bachelors and the sick, now a statue observing the changing and sometimes tormented world around. Teleky's poems explore these kinds of themes, sickness and suffering, age and loneliness, and abandon the local in favour of the literary, because, as he writes, "I still / believe we can learn / from books." What follows are poems, personal and vulnerable, concerned with life, death, art and music. This is the work of a mature writer at the peak of his skills.Teleky, Richard is the author of 'Hermit's Kiss ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781550415711 and ISBN 1550415719.