THE SHAPE OF AIR: FRAGMENTS by Iván Argüelles

The Shape of Air: Fragments

Iván Argüelles

Poetry

86 pages

Includes Afterwords by Jack Foley & John M. Bennett

No other poet is as consistently enchanting as Argüelles. He seems to draw on these spirits of the air in an effortless eloquence that falls into the mind like rain – sometimes in a torrent, sometimes in a delicate music that harmonizes with silence so completely that we understand both as one and the same. He has always been a poet of prophetic intensity, but in these poems he often articulates a jarring beauty so intimately transformative that one hardly realizes a spell has been cast. - Jake Berry

This shape of air: fragments, one of Argüelles' strongest and most ecstatic recent works, invokes that extremely complex experience, one that occurs in the context of language, the shape (or air) of our very being: “in the beginning word was the voice of the absent one”. In the multiplicity of “meanings” or perspectives or resonances of this opening phrase can be sensed the depth and height, and the narrow precision and broad width of Argüelles' vision. - Dr. John M. Bennett

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