Real Weight: Bachelard Interpreted Book 3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781923166257)

I make this wine

with subtle water

pick -

one by one -

the stars to tread

French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of earth in two books - Earth and Reveries of Repose, and Earth and Reveries of Will.

In Real Weight Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations of the poetic element earth, decanting the vivid imagery contained within the philosopher's work into new and accessible free verse poetic storytelling forms, bringing each story to life.

and the poem she dug

read straight and neat

its subject was springtime

and growing