As long as I can remember, I've been struggling to move beyond postmodernism and postmodernity.
I lived for more than fifteen years outside Michigan--in Japan, where I taught at Gunma University in Maebashi; in Arizona, on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation; in Illinois, on the central farmlands and on the Mississippi; ultimately returning to my suburban hometown of Rochester.
A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, I studied at Beijing University, the Buddhist Mogao Caves on the old Silk Road, and elsewhere in China, including Hong Kong and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. While a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar in 1995 on India, I further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity.
I privately studied writing at the University of Michigan with the poet Robert Hayden and edited both Hayden’s Collected Prose (University of Michigan Press) and his Collected Poems (Liveright).
I have been an outspoken advocate of the United Nations and an accredited participant at the UN Millennium Forum (2000).
I would like to think that my writing takes literary account of global realities.
Brief Bio
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