Lucretius and the Logic of Venus - Price, V. B.
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Why did Lucretius begin his poem on physics and the philosophy of materialism with an invocation of the Goddess Venus? Is love a mere attraction, a kind of helpless gravity, or is there a holy logic to it, a divine sense to be made both in and beyond cosmic matter, a logic to not only feeling it, but to sustaining it, and meaning it? These questions are what V. B. Price sets out to explore in his response to the Roman poet Lucretius's classic On the Nature of Things. The result is timeless while reaching across time, a philosophical and heartfelt call for pleasure in a world too often reluctant to embrace it.…mehr

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Why did Lucretius begin his poem on physics and the philosophy of materialism with an invocation of the Goddess Venus? Is love a mere attraction, a kind of helpless gravity, or is there a holy logic to it, a divine sense to be made both in and beyond cosmic matter, a logic to not only feeling it, but to sustaining it, and meaning it? These questions are what V. B. Price sets out to explore in his response to the Roman poet Lucretius's classic On the Nature of Things. The result is timeless while reaching across time, a philosophical and heartfelt call for pleasure in a world too often reluctant to embrace it.
Autorenporträt
V. B. Price has been working to repair his ignorance since he came to New Mexico in 1958 at the age of eighteen. He studied anthropology and philosophy at the University of New Mexico and has been publishing poetry since 1962. He's worked continuously as a reporter and an environmental and political columnist for nearly as long. His column currently runs weekly at mercmessenger.com. He had the great privilege of teaching at UNM's School of Architecture and Planning and in UNM's Honors College for more than three decades. His books include Innocence Regained: Christmas Poems, Chaco Trilogy, Memoirs of the World in Ten Fragments, The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment since the Manhattan Project, Mythwaking, The Seven Deadly Sins, and Albuquerque: A City at the End of the World. He recently received the 2021 New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award for contributions to the life of the poetry community in New Mexico and the Southwest, and he has also been elected to the Board of Directors for the Leopold Writing Program.