{"product_id":"talking-to-valum-votan-elegies-for-joe-and-others-paperback","title":"Talking to Valum Votan: Elegies for Joe and Others - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIvan Arguelles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIván Argüelles' \u003ci\u003eTalking to Valum Votan\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a great cry: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe animals don't realize susceptible to dying\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea death a thousand and years pass through a siphon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewell-water turns bitter darkness the exodus of flies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough a miasma of rotted verdure the lawn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof innocence prey to literature do not accept\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe thought coming to an end of the air that we\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebreathe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mind circles around various areas of (related) awareness and settles into \"Do not accept \/ the thought of coming to an end.\" This non-acceptance is of course a way of coming to terms with what the poets knows all too well will be a \"coming to an end of the air that we \/ breathe.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1939, Argüelles has been a powerful force for poetry--for consciousness--since the publication of his first books in 1978, nearly fifty years ago. To enter his intense, stunning, erudite world is to enter an extraordinary awareness of what it means to be alive, to be fully conscious, in this most problematical of periods. Tied to no \"school\"--including the Surrealist school which is sometimes mentioned in connection to him--he has been, in Pound's phrase, \"a lone ant from a broken anthill,\" a bearer of troubled light. \"What have we learned?\" he asks: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat hands are shapes that remember loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat we cannot possess whom we truly love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat the end of time is almost here\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary book from an octogenarian whose life has fed and nourished his unique awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Foley\u003c\/p\u003e--Ivan Arguelles\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 5.9 x 9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763646955808,"sku":"9781957372129","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/54c76a2905c9638a5929ebd9c2f12967.webp?v=1780237943","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/talking-to-valum-votan-elegies-for-joe-and-others-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}