ﾜbermensch (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798354530434)

In his latest book of poems, Manolis celebrates the "imperfect perfection of the imperfect chaos," energetic and lucid philosophic meditations on the mysteries of being human. ﾜbermensch is derived from one of Nietzsche's most challenging and frequently misunderstood concepts, the Superman or Overman. Nietzsche believed that we are capable of being better than we are, possessing more understanding, more compassion, greater wisdom and more awareness which allows humanism to fill the void left by the absence of God. As Virgil led Dante on his midlife journey, the ﾜbermensch is our guide through modernity. Manolis has extended his range, celebrating the magnetic possibilities of the self in a narrative that takes us on an intellectual and spiritual journey. The poems possess a vitality of sensuous music in a sea of thought, kinetic and direct, imbued by rational compassion and mystic clarity, in poems that transcend the quotidian to enrapture us by the enigma of an unchained life. The voice in the poems awakens us to the next stage of consciousness and moves through impenetrable breath like a river that flows through the spiritual body, mouth to mouth, reviving language from the still bones of silence. ﾜbermensch is a reverie in the best traditions of poetry, a poetic sacrement from which the taste of language rises like honey oozing in the ear. With Nietzche's Zarathustra as an inspiration, every word a music more music than music and after the silence breaks, the voice goes on forever. In ﾜbermensch, with the Greek en face, the taste and texture of the language transforms the empyreal whose accents linger long in the vocabulary of the imagination.

Author: Emmanuel (Manolis) Aligizakis
ISBN-10: 8354530434
ISBN-13: 9798354530434
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2022
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d