Isbn: 9780991102266 - the chronosphere commentary: reflections on a poem about time (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The courage of a friend who faced death, a scientific meeting on sustainability and systems thinking, and a tragi-comic poem in 61 verses are the starting points for these 61 short, luminous essays on the human relationship to time. Begun as a letter to the friend's now-adult daughter, who had written to the author seeking to understand a mysterious poem dedicated to her father over 20 years previously, 'The Chronosphere Commentary' takes the reader on a journey that varies from playful to philosophical to achingly personal, ultimately confronting the unreliability of memory and the unavoidable shortness of human life in the context of a vast, ancient universe.…

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