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Airs, Waters, Places (Kuhl House Poets)
Bin Ramke
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Description for Airs, Waters, Places (Kuhl House Poets)
Paperback. Like the ancient medical text by Hippocrates that gives this collection of poetry its title, "Airs, Waters, Places" looks with intensity and purpose at the elemental world to understand the possibility of an expanded notion of health in an often disconnected and disconnecting social order. Series: Kuhl House Poets. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 181 x 7. Weight in Grams: 195.
Like the ancient medical text by Hippocrates that gives this book its title, Airs, Waters, Places looks with intensity and purpose at the elemental world to understand the possibility of an expanded notion of health in an often disconnected and disconnecting social order. In the poet's words, ""To call language a nervous system might be useful: if each sentient being is analogous to cells within the organism, language is analogous to the nerves as well as the messages sent along those nerves. There is, there, if not eternity, at least delusion."" This is a book of various appetites in constant ... Read more
Like the ancient medical text by Hippocrates that gives this book its title, Airs, Waters, Places looks with intensity and purpose at the elemental world to understand the possibility of an expanded notion of health in an often disconnected and disconnecting social order. In the poet's words, ""To call language a nervous system might be useful: if each sentient being is analogous to cells within the organism, language is analogous to the nerves as well as the messages sent along those nerves. There is, there, if not eternity, at least delusion."" This is a book of various appetites in constant ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Condition
New
Series
Kuhl House Poets
Number of Pages
84
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9780877457763
SKU
V9780877457763
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About Bin Ramke
Bin Ramke has published six previous books of poems, including Massacre of the Innocents and Wake (Iowa, 1995 and 1999). The editor of the Denver Quarterly, he teaches creative writing at the University of Denver.
Reviews for Airs, Waters, Places (Kuhl House Poets)
The transtucent transience of life flowing has seldom been more poignantly and pertinently evoked. Bin Ramke's Airs, Waters, Places is magisterial. He is our Heraclitus. - John Ashbery; ""There is a Shelleyan grandeur here. In Airs, Waters, Places Bin Ramke writes lyric drama of very great heart, a drama whose troubling theme is nothing less than the Tragedy of Wisdom. ... Read more