Where Seas and Fables Meet Volume 111
Parables, Fragments, Lines, Thought
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Guernica Editions,Canada
Published:1st Mar '15
Currently unavailable, our supplier has not provided us a restock date
A book that is an open door, a current, an open window, a breeze over uncut grass, a dance of morning light on an old ruined sundial, a set of waves flowing up on a strange shore. This is a book that asks why do we give in to the psychotic and invasive Structure (and its many names)? A book that mingles witticisms and provocations so that the reader may settle into his or her soul and reflect. A book that works in associations, echoes, pulses, images, returns, vibrations, thought-experiments, dreams, visions and revisions. This is a book that should have an ellipse on the front page with an image of a shock of light
Trenchant in vision, and often rhapsodic Powe adapts the stance of a rhetorician a fitting stance that involves not only observation of the evidence but regard for the beauty of a sentence. -- The National Post
A rich and subtly argued book that offers many first-hand insights. -- Times Literary Supplement
Like some latter-day Magellan, Powe has taken it upon himself to sail into turbulent waters, mapping out the hazards and the consequences. -- Montreal Gazette
This remarkable assembly of shorts Parables, Aphorisms, Fragments, Thought exudes profound, at times humorous, thought provoking insights into the human soul. Here, Powes fascination with Light prevails. Along with all of its manifestations, Light is a countermeasure to the Structure (at one time the System, and its equivalents), which encompasses all forms of mind and soul crushing. To escape the Structures onslaughts Powe listens to his inner voices, speaking the language of creation and wonder, and opts for a strategy of breakthrough through self-expression as did Blake, Nietzsche, Whitman, Kafka, Kubrick, and others, including Yuri in Zhivago; and, significantly, Grace in Seas and Fables. -- R. Andrew Paskauskas
ISBN: 9781550719420
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
150 pages