{"product_id":"parmenides-in-minneapolis-paperback","title":"Parmenides in Minneapolis - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Gould\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParmenides in Minneapolis is a book-length sequence of poems which employ, for the most part, a 9-line stanza, featuring a rhyme scheme [a-b-a-b-c-a-b-c-a] which is very roughly modeled on the logical structure of the argument presented in the ancient poetic fragments (untitled) of the pre-Socratic poet-philosopher Parmenides of Elea. This book is the first volume of a projected longer work, which has the preliminary title of \u003cem\u003eShield of Mnemosyne.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParmenides in Minneapolis \u003c\/em\u003eis the outcome of a first encounter, relatively late in life, with the eponymous poet-philosopher from Elea (an ancient Greek city located in southern Italy, near present-day Naples). Upon reading these ancient fragmentary writings I was immediately struck by their fusion of poetry and philosophy: a flinty, adamantine quest for ultimate truth, couched in a poetic speech of fabulous, mythical, dramatic intensity. Parmenides' narrated encounter with the fearsome, awe-inspiring Goddess of the Sun, driving her four horses - who leads him beyond an inherently fraudulent, illusory human condition, onto the Way of absolute Truth - quickly brought to mind Dante's parallel encounter with the immortal Beatrice in his \u003cem\u003eDivina Commedia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParmenides' forthright quest, aided by divine powers, took place during an age of tumultuous change in his Mediterranean world. So in this work, I attempt to yoke together thought and poetry, metaphysics and politics, in response to a sense of terrible upheaval and crisis - presenting an ominous threat to my own seemingly ordered, civilized, American world of democracy, law and power. My poems plunge into a similar poetic idiom of judgement and imagination - yet yoked to my own ordinary, local \"Minneapolis\" actuality, tangled in a time of moral uncertainty and political corruption - of inescapable suffering and calamity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354255343865,"sku":"9781961822214","price":16.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/uGosrQzUwx9781961822214.webp?v=1769833349","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/parmenides-in-minneapolis-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}