{"product_id":"socrates-is-mortal-stephen-williams-9781962847407","title":"Socrates is Mortal","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf Socrates Is Mortal weren't a textbook example of a syllogism (All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore), it might be the title of a situational comedy set somewhere deep in Pascal's \"eternal silence of infinite spaces.\" Minor poetic genres-the epigram, the song, the fable, the fragment, the joke, the imagistic aperçu, the spell-converge in a grotesque carnival of expirations and nativities. The book's five sets of poems-\"Dead End \/ Ad Infinitum\"; \"Don't Move\"; \"Phosphorescent Fiction\"; \"Click\"; and \"Origin Pit\"-move through openings in history, myth, popular culture, public and private life, language, and logic itself, while its recursive structures seek to restore a distinction between tragedy and farce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSample: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKINGS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe copper king sighed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark mountain's gone black.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thief is on the rack.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe urn king asked his niece, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoes it smash or does it shatter?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoes it matter?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dying king gazed for long periods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat the shifting colors of paradise, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe swimming myriads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing Cowboy wiped his mouth, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elit his lamp, sat down and wrote: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe road goes on forever, but I don't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe barnyard king had a parrot, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit was screeching mi ritrovai! mi ritrovai!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he turned over in his sty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dumb king was nervous, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehe was tight as a violin string.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho can say what tomorrow's gonna bring?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1962847403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781962847407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e DOS Madres Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Stephen Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066817982719,"sku":"9781962847407","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb35731e-006f-47ee-94aa-2ae3060aadc5.jpg?v=1768680720","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/socrates-is-mortal-stephen-williams-9781962847407","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}