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The Radix: The Original Radical Poem

The Radix: The Original Radical Poem

Eastham, Scott Thomas
Appelbaum, David

Hardcover

Series: Revisioning Philosophy, Book 8

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0820416444
ISBN13: 9780820416441
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Jan 1 1992
Pages: 278
Language: English
The Radix is an unusual work of scholarship poised on the precarious threshold between poetry and philosophy. It is a poem, or rather a series of poetic essays, because all the elements of which it consists are poems. The title invokes the metaphorical root of a word, the radix or etym, which at once concentrates and radiates living energies. The overall thesis is that each word is, or contains, its own poem. Language itself, as Emerson once phrased it, is fossil poetry . Each word is primordial. It is the center and, in a certain sense, the whole of language. And it is the intent of The Radix to bring that primordial Word to life again.

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