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Socrates is Mortal

Socrates is Mortal

Williams, Stephen

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1962847403
ISBN13: 9781962847407
Publisher: DOS Madres Press
Published: Dec 22 2025
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

If Socrates Is Mortal weren't a textbook example of a syllogism (All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore), it might be the title of a situational comedy set somewhere deep in Pascal's eternal silence of infinite spaces. Minor poetic genres-the epigram, the song, the fable, the fragment, the joke, the imagistic aperçu, the spell-converge in a grotesque carnival of expirations and nativities. The book's five sets of poems-Dead End / Ad Infinitum; Don't Move; Phosphorescent Fiction; Click; and Origin Pit-move through openings in history, myth, popular culture, public and private life, language, and logic itself, while its recursive structures seek to restore a distinction between tragedy and farce.

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