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Twelve Iron Paradoxes (Instructor Edition): A System of Contradiction
Paperback
Series: Twelve
General EducationGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781972788158
Publisher: Pressure System Press
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Twelve Iron Paradoxes: Instructor Edition presents a sequence of twelve concise, structurally precise poems designed to model contradiction as a sustained system. Each entry establishes a condition, introduces opposition, and maintains tension without resolution-demonstrating how identity, control, order, truth, and being emerge through opposing forces rather than clarity.
Composed using Absolute Composition, the work removes metaphor and symbolic substitution, focusing instead on observable physical processes such as tension and release, compression and expansion, rotation, flow, resistance, and phase change. Each line presents a state; the relation between states produces the paradox.
This instructor edition expands the core text with teaching support aligned to each poem. Instructor notes, system correspondences, and targeted discussion prompts provide a practical framework for guiding students through structural analysis and compositional practice. The material is designed to shift focus away from interpretation and toward observation-what holds, where opposition enters, and what persists.
Suitable for secondary and early collegiate classrooms, the book supports instruction in creative writing, critical thinking, and systems-based analysis. Students engage directly with structure, learning to identify conditions, track contradiction, and construct their own work using triadic form.
Part of the Twelve series by J. A. Gucci, this volume functions as both a poetic text and a teaching system-offering educators a clear, repeatable method for exploring contradiction, perception, and form in the classroom.
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