AustLit

'As an academic in the humanities, Kevin Hart's star has risen from the University of Melbourne, to Monash, to Notre Dame in the U.S.A., to a chair in Christian Studies at the University of Virginia. His research into phenomenology, deconstruction and its intersection with religious faith and mysticism has consistently and profoundly addressed the relationship between theology and certain strands of continental thinking. Alongside this, Hart has steadily continued to write and publish poetry that hints at the depths of this philosophical back - ground and yet remains firmly attached to the sensual world. As a result, his poetry is beginning to receive sustained interest from a younger generation of scholars who are, for the most part, picking up on what Tom Bishop described as "the effort of the negative - heuristic, existential, or theological" within his work (162).' (Author's abstract)