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A poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath every day experience. As the title suggests, the poems in R. S. Mason’s Nearer to Never paradoxically comprise a book of the unmanifest, a poetic examination of what’s waiting just beneath everyday experience. Recalling Blake, Baudelaire, and Eliot, Mason addresses the innately sacred, melding philosophy, aesthetics, and Buddhist precepts into a lyrical work that is truly modern and avant-garde. Rendered in a straightforward lyrical style, the poems are oddly comprehensible, at times darkly humorous. The language is fresh, elemental, and ludic; the writing is clean, direct, and empowered. Some poems wrestle with the conclusion that life reduces itself to some mere, otherworldly absence; while others reveal the false prison of the ideal, either humanistically or religiously constructed. The poems invite a reader’s most intimate aesthetic engagement, through the technique of radical doubt or, in the Buddhist tradition, “beginner’s mind”—whereby each poem unlocks. In his debut, Mason drives poetry beyond the well-worn schisms established in the previous century, successfully showing that the irreconcilable can cohere, and the inexpressible can, at the most, be sketched. “Zip” I will not ascend on an engine A bobble scope, a space-kit Nor breathe pure oxygen As I rumble through the finite ‘What’s indestructible Is fragile’ I would utter In my voice-box! Rambling through The depth and breadth Without ever Blasting off
Series: Excelsior Editions
Paperback: 104 pages
Publisher: State University of New York Press (September 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1438458940
ISBN-13: 978-1438458946
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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This is a very potent, very strong debut. Each poem feels like a sheath or scabbard that slowly unseals some latent mystery in one's psyche. The poems both invoke and unsheathe artifice. Shows a great deal of potential and a real taste for mystery and truth.
I know the author and his poetry is divine. A must read for anyone who is exploring the divine!
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