| For the Tempus-Fugitives: Poems and Verse-Essays Contributor(s): Norris, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845198670 ISBN-13: 9781845198671 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Series: Critical Voices |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 8.7" (0.90 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this latest collection of poems and verse-essays, Christopher Norris revisits many of the topics for which he is best known as a philosopher, literary theorist, and writer on music. Among them are the many-worlds metaphysics of Leibniz, the nature of subjective time-experience, the issue of poetic truth, the function of rhyme in poetry, the "theory wars" in literary studies, the augmented-fourth interval (or tritone), also known as the "devil in music," and musical minimalism approached from a critical or cultural-diagnostic standpoint. There are also some shorter, more "occasional" pieces including an epithalamion (wedding-poem) for the poet's daughter, a semi-fictive double sestina about police infiltration of activist groups, a savagely bawdy polemic imagined as addressed by the ancient Greek satirist Archilochus to his ex-fiancée Neobule, and a number of shrewdly angled political poems with reference to events from the 1980s to the present. These pieces have the hallmark qualities of intellectual range, perceptive wit, and formal inventiveness that characterize Norris's verse-essays. They make a strong case for poetry as a vehicle for argument, dialogue, and open debate. |