Ricardo Quinones was a scholar-critic, professor emeritus of Claremont McKenna College. He was the author of such prize-winning volumes as The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain-Abel Literature (1991), Dualisms: The Agons of the Modern World (2007), and Erasmus and Voltaire: Why They Still Matter (2010).
Mr. Quinones held academic positions as professor or visiting professor at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, the City University of New York, UC Irvine, and the University of Kansas and served as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, chair of the MLA's executive committee on comparative literature, member of the California Council for the Humanities, and member of the National Council on the Humanities. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
39 West Press is honored to feature the poetry of Mr. Quinones.
Paperback | 1 Sep 2015
Ricardo Quinones announced with little regret that Finishing Touches did not quite live up to its name. Other poems, obtruded, seeming to call for this new volume.
Paperback | 7 Oct 2014
Finishing Touches, Ricardo Quinones fourth book of poems, is a purposeful combination of the old and the new.
Paperback | 1 Jul 2011
Ricardo Quinones has upped the ante with a generous selection from his earlier volumes and additions from a ready supply of new poems presented here.
Paperback | 21 Mar 2011
Ricardo Quinones has followed his first volume of poems, Through the Years, with a second, dedicated in large part to his wife, Roberta.
Paperback | 30 Nov 2010
Ricardo Quinones' debut book of poems is a mixture of regular and irregular forms, with subject matter ranging from Kansas to Southern California.
–Ricardo Quinones
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