A Civilization

By Fred Muratori

Poetry. "A CIVILIZATION, Fred Muratori's compelling collection, embraces its subject as an embedded contradiction: 'Lost now, and in / need of reconstruction. / This dark age, / never more / enlightened, / falls prey / to self-regard, / its beauty / recognized by torchlight, / shouted to the night.' More than a Freudian imposition of will and idea on a savage 'id, ' civilization emerges as the mystery at the heart of consciousness: 'No pruning / tames the vine, / the bold momentum. / More than ever / hope and blindness / arc the known, describing next.' The poet's lines, fragments of broken sense, point like an explicate finger at an implicate order, the elusive flow impaled on our yearning for wholeness, the mother of sorrow, the father of war, and the glue that holds us together. More than a reflection on Heraclitean strife, Muratori's work gives us a glimpse of the container that attempts to hold the flow of All Things, a poem unto itself, an impossible imperative that demands our attention commands it." Paul Pines"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939929172
• ISBN13: 9781939929174
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: DOS Madres Press
• Length: 72 Pages