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Title: Minding the Darkness: A Poem for the Year 2000 by Peter Dale Scott ISBN: 0-8112-1454-0 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent Poem
Comment: Please read this extraordinary multi-leveled poem. Starting with the great Berkeley fire of 1991, Scott meditates on the tragedy in history which up to now has been chiefly the experience of those on other continents. From a Buddhist perspective, he distills a lifetime of teaching, political activism and investigative research into this final volume of his long poem Seculum. Echoing Dante, and a millenarian monk from the year 1000, he sees the ills of our time as stemming from covetousness. At the same time he discerns hope for America if it can pursue the aspirations of its founding fathers for a better society. He concludes with reflections on how language can help us to the right way in which to love our world.
Rating: 5
Summary: A subtle masterpiece
Comment: Peter Dale Scott's beautiful and ethereal poem "Minding the Darkness" reveals an immensely
civilized author coming to grips with the many crimes of civilization, expressing the intersection
of the poet's life and the twentieth century in a way which illuminates the efforts of a truly
engaged intellectual to document experiences of collective denial and complicity with
horror which characterize political modernity.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece
Comment: In this extraordinary poem, Peter Dale Scott explores the depth and scope of his humanity as he takes the reader on a brilliant and surprising journey through the landscapes of not only his own personal history, but the history of politics, philosophy, ideas and literature.
Like all great poetry, Scott feeds our souls because his poem tells the truth and because his words, in their beautiful and erudite combinations, point us toward the shimmering reality that lies beyond words and within each of us, in each moment.
Some poetry tells the truth with great simplicity. Minding the Darkness is a complex and multi-layered epic, a garden of intellectual delight. Because Scott impeccably refuses the temptation of making a statement about the nature of life, and instead leads us directly into an experience of his reality, the reader is free to roam the sweeping, unpredictable and exciting scope of his intellectual, political and ontological knowledge. Amazingly, the weight of his intellect does not crush his soul. It is through the tenderness and vulnerability of the man that otherwise distant and esoteric references become accessible to the reader, as alive and affecting as the poet himself.
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Title: Deep Politics And The Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott ISBN: 0520205197 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ISBN: 0060977493 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse (A New Directions Paperbook, Ndp747) by Peter Dale Scott ISBN: 0811212149 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror by Peter Dale Scott ISBN: 0811210952 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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