Description

The poetry of this volume takes us into the bird-twitter language that unravels the most difficult philosophical knots. As readers pass through Mexico, Nicaragua, Greece, somewhere in Africa, China, we feel through the words and spacing and punctuation on the page what is immediately, clearly communicated, rather than working to decode and understand the book’s meaning. The poems demonstrate the anti-philosophy of the opening essay of the first edition in a way revealing what can be called mystical, void of a clear and rigid metaphysics, soaked in language and the very real world.

(This is the second edition, in which the original philosophical essay on the absurdity of metaphysics is replaced by a letter from the author on the reality of inspiration considered against the typical picture of inspiration as visionary, miraculous and determined.)