The Absolute Is a Round Die

José Acquelin and Hugh Hazelton (Translator)

Guernica Editions, Fall 2014

92 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550719994

ISBN10: 1550719998

English

Translated from the French

$12.00 Canada, $12.00 US

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The Absolute Is a Round Die is a work of metaphysical meditation, a verbal mural painting, a restless search for a way to speak the unspeakable, know the unknowable, attain the unattainable. It travels through Middle Eastern sensuality and mysticism, seeking the transcendence within what is at hand, discovering the invisible.

a poem is a mind-carrier / that searches for the deep heart of things / I plunge my eyes into the sky / that plays marbles with them

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