{"product_id":"greatest-living-poet-mark-staber-kobo-9781401011086","title":"Greatest Living Poet: Strange Gods, Bulk Prophecies","description":"\"That there is poetry is the only evidence that man truly exists.\" Mark Staber Kobo \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mark Staber Kobo is a modern American poet and philosopher, also known by name Mark Chandos, author of the famous space faring epic poem Chandos Ring. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Greatest Living Poet: Strange Gods, Bulk Prophecies represents the highest form of lyric poetry in contemporary literature. In his book, Mark Staber Kobo attempts to restate the central problems of modern poetry. He presents a very clear and healing answer to how to write modern poetry - and shows how each poem creates a new language and represents a break with the past. He poses the question: What is the problem with modern poetry? The poetry of the last century sought to solve the incongruence of poetic language in the modern world by resorting to newspaper prose. Greatest Living Poet recovers the prestige of poetry by showing that human mind, itself, is a poetic protocol. The central thesis of Mark Kobo is that modernism has mistaken how human consciousness operates. Science, in his view, itself, is a poetic representation of reality. Therefore, Kobo creates a new lyric language to prove this phenomenon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here is an example from the book: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eCopper Floods\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Black pools gave up arms and men where none would touch the\u003cbr\u003e water since all was let loose under, stitched in their brain, \u003cbr\u003e battenedon bone, a finger from a tailor's seam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e They thought once never to see a stranger thing\u003cbr\u003e as floods lifting coffins from their planting, \u003cbr\u003e still bright and burnished and harlot deep\u003cbr\u003e who made a bed where all could see. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She was one who never chose one country, \u003cbr\u003e one copper house, and curse all staying;\u003cbr\u003e rooms, like lovers, with just one corner good, \u003cbr\u003e not keep again as spouse, as child, accusers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I have raised dead in many cities and will see more;\u003cbr\u003e all the brass here has been touched;\u003cbr\u003e heart and bone made lighter now\u003cbr\u003e half stitches rubrics splitting seams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I have always changed your house; already\u003cbr\u003e I have placed a shout inside your dark sobbing\u003cbr\u003e that does not suffer long a little room and shuns\u003cbr\u003e all steady lodging. I will always send you floods, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e some to take away, some to raise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I have dug in many fields and will find more\u003cbr\u003e no margin for the water on my lids;\u003cbr\u003e they cross this lake who shave its frost, \u003cbr\u003e they swim this night who still can sleep \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e on splitting beams, on drowning beds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Staber Kobo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 140101108X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781401011086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Xlibris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.56w x 0.43d","brand":"Mark Staber Kobo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47305223536895,"sku":"9781401011086","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1f9b1b9-4b76-4ea2-b1f6-670a5f0315c2.jpg?v=1758830294","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/greatest-living-poet-mark-staber-kobo-9781401011086","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}