The Legend of Death
(Part of the Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies Series)
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The Earth's thin crust of organic matter and the still thinner crust of the spirit is the most concentrated, the most suggestive part of the cosmos. It in every way exceeds itself by pointing above its horizontal surface towards vertical transcendence. However, it can never leave itself behind and always carries itself with itself in every ascent. Poetry attends to the resultant human diagonal. --from the preface to the first sequence, ""On the Diagonal:...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1498211070
ISBN13:9781498211079
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:Cascade Books
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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