This Is Not a Skyscraper (Paperback) by DeanKostos Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2015 by Red Hen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-416-0, ISBN: 1-59709-416-1
"This Is Not a Skyscraper examines New York City through a surrealist lens. Like the title of Magritte's painting, ?This is not a pipe,” these poems question perceptions of the metropolis."
Last Supper of the Senses by DeanKostos Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2005 by Spuyten Duyvil ISBN-13: 978-1-933132-06-8, ISBN: 1-933132-06-X
"With great pleasure I express my gratitude to Molly Peacock, Jaime Manrique,
Alfred Corn, Susan Wheeler, Richard Howard, Constantine Contogenis, Christina
Davis, Gretchen Primack, Walter Holland, Malcolm Farley, Karen Neuberg,
Penelope Karageorge, Sharon Olinka, and Darielle Rayner for their invaluable
feedback. And special thanks to Tod Thilleman. I would also like to thank the
trustees at Yaddo, where many of these poems were wri ..."
"Bullied to the brink of suicide, Dean Kostos spent two years in the mental hospital where his mother had stayed. While The Boy Who Listened To Paintings addresses mental illness in adolescents, in many of its most drastic guises, it also celebrates the transformative power of art, and stresses that in the formation of our multi-faceted characters, it is perhaps the darkest and longest travails, treated with both candor and humor in this ..."
Rivering by DeanKostos Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2012 by Spuyten Duyvil ISBN-13: 978-1-933132-37-2, ISBN: 1-933132-37-X
"Very few of these poems come to us with the demands of a determined art; rather, as in the first poems of Cavafy, the grace of Dean Kostos’s texts (I would call it unconscious grace, for that is the adjective which permits all heaven as much as all hell to explode, to let fly) is the result of another effort, not even the effort to please, but merely—merely!—the will to tell the truth, to tell what happened, what didn’t … It is another ..."
"The Sentence that Ends with a Comma is Dean Kostos' first full-length collection."
Pomegranate Seeds An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry by DeanKostos Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2008 by Somerset Hall Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9774610-4-2, ISBN: 0-9774610-4-1
"THE BOATMAN THANASIS MASKALERIS Ruddy rower of the boat called Merry
Man, merry man of the dark marsh, host of the party barge. His arms are like a
farmer's: slight but hard from the drag and the drag of a task — the oars that lap
the flat of the black bog until the reedmace sways its kinky heads. I see the boat
from the land where I stand. I can see the greasy distance, and the boatman's
grin. He likes his drink. His myopia is a d ..."
"Dedicated to the memory of the destruction of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks in Ottoman Turkey. The destruction of native Americans. The annihilation of Gypsies during WWII. Rwanda, Darfur and other victimised groups whose memory has been forgotten."
Sekai No Nihongo Kyoiku Nihongo, Nihon Bunka Gakurui Shusshinsha No Katsuyaku by DeanKostos Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 1994 by Red Dust ISBN-13: 978-0-87376-077-5, ISBN: 0-87376-077-8
Mama's Boy(1st Edition) Gay Men Write About Their Mothers by DeanKostos, Eugene Grygo Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2000 by Painted Leaf Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-891305-20-7, ISBN: 1-891305-20-4