From Feathers to Iron: A Concourse of World Poetics

By John Clarke

Nonfiction. FROM FEATHERS TO IRON--a series of lectures by John Clarke--has virtually no precedent in the literature of poetic interpretation. It is at once a profound revelation of the physics of poetic intelligence and a brilliantly conceived declaration of "the implicate order of the universe." "How rarely I come upon a truly useful book. Clarke has packed it all in here and wherever you open the pages, jewels, pearls, crowns tumble out. I see illustrations to the Arabian Nights. I have already picked up and walked off with treasures"--James Hillman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939180421
• ISBN13: 9780939180424
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Tombouctou Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

an excellent look at archetype/poetics as reference to life

John Clarke has has gone night-swimming with the myths of the ages...he provides us with absolutely useful and inspiring notions of the mysteries of our archetypal past...how they relate to our present condition and how they ultimately define us as beings in progress. This work provides crucial insight into the language of possibility and senseless pathologizing which would interest psychologists, poets, priests, politicians, medical doctors, and particularly theoretical physicists. This is a work of unimaginable richness and possibility. John Clarke was a visionary the likes of which I have not seen or heard of in our time. --Mark Bottita