Eugene Paul Nassar

Eugene "Gene" Paul Nassar (20 June 1935 – 7 April 2017), was a writer, editor, professor, and literary critic.

[2] He wrote a memoir, Wind of the Land, of growing up in a Lebanese Christian family in East Utica, an Italian-American neighborhood.

[5] Nassar attended Yale School of Medicine for one week,[2] followed by study at Kenyon College, the University of Oxford, and Cornell University.[when?]

He wrote long studies of the figural images in the poetry of Wallace Stevens,[6] the lyric passages in Ezra Pound's The Cantos,[7] and Hart Crane’s The Bridge, along with numerous essays in criticism of poems, drama and fiction.

Author Editor Articles appeared in: College English, Renascence (2), Paideuma, Mosaic, American Oxonian, Melus, Syracuse Scholar (2), New York Folklore, Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, Dictionary of American Immigration History, Virginia Quarterly Review, Dante Studies(3).Dante Encyclopedia, Ambassador.