Description
Book SynopsisFeatures the poems of the author who was a popular and highly influential figure in the cultural life of London until his death in 2004.
Table of ContentsIntroduction • Notes on the Poetry of Nikos Stangos • The Purity of Duration • The Definition of the Good • The Definition of the Beautiful Fictive Grammar • Fictive Nations • Facts, Fictions and Forecasts • How Could Speech Exhaust the Meaning of Speech? • The Necessities of the Mind • Enchantments of the Obvious • The Familiar Surroundings of the Words • Accumulation of Texts • Holidays • News of a Death A Hopeful Dream • An Obstacle • On a Walk • Space of Ideas • To Say to Oneself Suddenly One Morning • What Calm Then? • Imperative Present • Pure Reason • The Aim Was to Put a Poem Together
