{"product_id":"homodeus-joseph-f-edwards-9780983653035","title":"homodeus: an introduction to the ineffable","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ehomodeus: An Introduction to the Ineffable\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Selection of Poems by Joe Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat lies beyond the reach of language? For more than sixty years, poet and philosopher Joe Edwards has been chasing that question - and \u003ci\u003ehomodeus\u003c\/i\u003e is the luminous result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a lifetime of poetic practice, Edwards offers a collection that ranges from the playfully irreverent to the profoundly sublime. From the philosophical wit of \u003ci\u003eOde to the Rule\u003c\/i\u003e - a meditation on measurement, identity, and the absurdity of being quantified - to the spare, devastating beauty of the haiku sequence, to the soaring mysticism of \u003ci\u003eHawkness\u003c\/i\u003e, these poems move with the ease of a mind equally at home in laughter and in awe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the collection is \u003ci\u003eHomo\u003c\/i\u003e, Edwards's landmark long poem - a work nearly fifty years in the making - which traces the arc of human experience from the primal to the transcendent. Through the gritty vernacular of \u003ci\u003eHilda\u003c\/i\u003e, the philosophical parable of \u003ci\u003eThe Lamb\u003c\/i\u003e, and the cosmic vision of \u003ci\u003ePart Two: Hawkness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHomo\u003c\/i\u003e stands as one of the most ambitious and original long poems in contemporary American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ehomodeus\u003c\/i\u003e - from the Latin \u003ci\u003ehomo\u003c\/i\u003e (man) and \u003ci\u003edeus\u003c\/i\u003e (God) - is a book about the space between those two words: the yearning, the reaching, the almost. It is a book for readers who believe, as Edwards does, that poetry leads us toward what cannot be said - and that the journey is worth every step.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"We all have poetry in us, and we all have those poetic moments which push us ever so slightly closer to that which cannot be bounded by the human word. Our poetry leads us toward the ineffable.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Joe Edwards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph F. Edwards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0983653038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983653035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cara Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Joseph F. Edwards","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742362415359,"sku":"9780983653035","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/homodeus-joseph-f-edwards-9780983653035","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}