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Poetry. FROM MIMIR'S HEAD comprises two reciprocal passes through the same terrain--a sequence of poems mostly exploring ontological matters in a variety of verse inventions, and a series of notes in a prose equally exploratory and inventive. In both, the quickly shifting diction is at once mercurial and immaculate, the images vivid and well-ordered, the structures musical and truly spoken, and the thought, if "philosophical," nonetheless sprung from the recognition of the limits of metaphysical discourse. Stein writes: "The philosopher should be discouraged in his metaphysical pretension, but the metaphysician encouraged in his poetic need."…mehr

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Poetry. FROM MIMIR'S HEAD comprises two reciprocal passes through the same terrain--a sequence of poems mostly exploring ontological matters in a variety of verse inventions, and a series of notes in a prose equally exploratory and inventive. In both, the quickly shifting diction is at once mercurial and immaculate, the images vivid and well-ordered, the structures musical and truly spoken, and the thought, if "philosophical," nonetheless sprung from the recognition of the limits of metaphysical discourse. Stein writes: "The philosopher should be discouraged in his metaphysical pretension, but the metaphysician encouraged in his poetic need."
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Stein is author of thirteen books including a translation of The Odyssey; a vision of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone Unveiled; a study of poet Charles Olson, The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum; and a study of Gary Hill, The Art of Limina. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and lives in Barrytown, New York. For more, www.charlessteinpoet.com.