{"product_id":"past-futures-collected-poems-paperback","title":"Past Futures. Collected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClive Faust\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Back forty years ago I wrote of \u003cem\u003eThe Gist of Origin\u003c\/em\u003e: 'In such a bare age as ours, the truth, though terrible, is clean. The worlds of Chaucer, Homer and Tolstoy were conventionally realized ones-even if the men in them shifted between realizations, incorrigibly. We now are in the same ferry as these chaotic Americans: we have no fixities to shift among. The only order they bring with them-and it is not nothing-is an economy of means. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ultimately the variety-of place, of instance, of event, of impression is deceptive. Also the enormous amount to be learnt from them, deceptive-because it is all the one thing. And the one thing is terrible, because it is unclear whether it is not ourselves.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I think this era of thought\/feeling is now obsolete in the culture, which is now based upon a sort of decorative wit-adapted for the computerex machinery, but on the way to being mechanically replicated by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Incidentally, the prosody of this perhaps outdated poetry is based at its best upon simply \"the taste of words, the pleasure of utterance as a physical act\", in the words of Cid Corman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Clive Faust\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460942958829,"sku":"9781848615403","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/past-futures-collected-poems-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}