Author : R. S. Mason
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781438458946
Nearer to Never by R. S. Mason Pdf
A poetic examination of whats waiting just beneath every day experience. As the title suggests, the poems in R. S. Masons Nearer to Never paradoxically comprise a book of the unmanifest, a poetic examination of whats 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 readers most intimate aesthetic engagement, through the technique of radical doubt or, in the Buddhist tradition, beginners mindwhereby 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 Whats indestructible Is fragile I would utter In my voice-box! Rambling through The depth and breadth Without ever Blasting off