Airs, Waters, Places
by Bin Ramke
University of Iowa Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-87745-776-3
Library of Congress Classification PS3568.A446A68 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Like the ancient medical text by Hippocrates that gives this book its title, Airs, Waters, Places looks with intensity and purpose at the elemental world to understand the possibility of an expanded notion of health in an often disconnected and disconnecting social order. In the poet's words, “To call language a nervous system might be useful: if each sentient being is analogous to cells within the organism, language is analogous to the nerves as well as the messages sent along those nerves. There is, there, if not eternity, at least delusion.” This is a book of various appetites in constant motion.
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