After the End

by Sobelman, David

• ISBN13: 9781550712469
• ISBN10: 1550712462
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: Guernica Editions

Summary

Challenging and compelling, this sequence of linked narrative poems consists of philosophical encounters between various necessary polarities: eye and ear, faith and reason, mythos and logos, essence and existence. It also explores the connection between themthe transformation from silence to speech made possible by the written wordand examines the relationship between the poet's physical being and the poet's soul.

Author Biography

David Sobelman is a writer, producer, and independent director of film and television programs.

Table of Contents

Epyllion, epyllion, every day	p. 9
The burning mime	p. 11
Beast of being	p. 15
Diary	p. 16
Holy Thursday	p. 17
Eloquence and deceit	p. 18
Stinky Fatso	p. 19
Books for borges	p. 20
Last things (a sonnet)	p. 21
The art whore	p. 22
A word about perfection	p. 23
Wicked disgrace	p. 24
The sexual revolution	p. 25
De veritate	p. 26
Old wail, new wail	p. 27
Aleph's past : a path	p. 28
Apologos	p. 29
Babalu's	p. 30
Elijah's cave	p. 31
Aleph's playground	p. 32
Port royal	p. 33
Afterimage	p. 34
Black light	p. 35
The way of martyrs	p. 36
Seed sower	p. 37
Moonblood	p. 38
A private sonnet	p. 39
Poison	p. 40
Psyche	p. 41
To a great friend	p. 42
The 11th tradegy, 09, 2001	p. 43
God is alive, after the end	p. 44
A visitation	p. 45
Between desire and the sheets	p. 46
Memo : Cher Robert Marteau	p. 47
Fire, stone and holy water	p. 48
Zeitgeist	p. 49
Prius in sensu	p. 50
The synaesthete	p. 51
The birth of Aleph Betson	p. 52
Aleph Betson's life and times	p. 53
False fire alarm	p. 54
Malgre Mallarme	p. 55
Icon is not image	p. 56
Tree speak	p. 57
Free, free, at last	p. 58
Palestine tentatively	p. 59
Things no longer hoped for	p. 60
Celtic fragments	p. 61
Blue beats	p. 62
Karma coated candy	p. 63
Side-swiped by a third degree	p. 64
Miss Terah Zanzibar	p. 65
Lividity	p. 66
After the fall	p. 67
The Flatliner's bridge	p. 68
Aleph at his wit's end	p. 69
Christ, the artist	p. 70
The pajama of insomnia	p. 71
Bellerophon	p. 72
Does spirit dull criticality?	p. 73
Only the dead know for sure	p. 74
Twice born	p. 75
Dear radius	p. 76
The pattern behind the blues	p. 77
The end of godard	p. 78
Ode to Norman Mailer	p. 79
Thirteen years later	p. 80
The end meets the beginning	p. 81
Mon cher ennuye	p. 82
Hurting-in-truth	p. 83
The chronic exile	p. 84
You asked	p. 85
Poems are my diary, hogg	p. 86
Artic ground	p. 87
My fair poet	p. 88
On the borderline	p. 89
Language of birds	p. 90
Laughter in the snow	p. 91
Strange(r)	p. 92
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