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The Elements (Paperback)

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The Elements is a family book, a thinker's biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage, constructed on a double axis. Poems about and for Moure's late father -- accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking "world" and "self" in a struggle against invasive powers -- are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. "The infinitely transmissible," it says, "demands this polyvalent body."


Product Details
ISBN: 9781487003722
ISBN-10: 1487003722
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Publication Date: April 9th, 2019
Pages: 120
Language: English