{"product_id":"socrates-is-mortal-paperback","title":"Socrates is Mortal - 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\u003eStephen Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Socrates Is Mortal weren't a textbook example of a syllogism (All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore), it might be the title of a situational comedy set somewhere deep in Pascal's \"eternal silence of infinite spaces.\" Minor poetic genres-the epigram, the song, the fable, the fragment, the joke, the imagistic aperçu, the spell-converge in a grotesque carnival of expirations and nativities. The book's five sets of poems-\"Dead End \/ Ad Infinitum\"; \"Don't Move\"; \"Phosphorescent Fiction\"; \"Click\"; and \"Origin Pit\"-move through openings in history, myth, popular culture, public and private life, language, and logic itself, while its recursive structures seek to restore a distinction between tragedy and farce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSample: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKINGS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe copper king sighed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark mountain's gone black.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thief is on the rack.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe urn king asked his niece, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoes it smash or does it shatter?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoes it matter?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dying king gazed for long periods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat the shifting colors of paradise, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe swimming myriads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing Cowboy wiped his mouth, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elit his lamp, sat down and wrote: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe road goes on forever, but I don't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe barnyard king had a parrot, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit was screeching mi ritrovai! mi ritrovai!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he turned over in his sty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dumb king was nervous, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehe was tight as a violin string.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho can say what tomorrow's gonna bring?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 170\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47348598538489,"sku":"9781962847407","price":24.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/mp0ukmUmnv9781962847407.webp?v=1769774904","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/socrates-is-mortal-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}