Poetry. In this ongoing version or "writing through" Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, of which this edition presents "Books One & Two," Paul Naylor brings a contemporary sensibility to the classical poets weave of words, de- and reconstructing meaning by erasure and rearrangement. In accordance with the epigraph from Lucretius, "And so the atoms swerve a little -- they must...," Naylor's text is both scintillatingly atomized and respectful of its source: "To proceed / we perceive / each point remains / minimal / and is / ...
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Poetry. In this ongoing version or "writing through" Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, of which this edition presents "Books One & Two," Paul Naylor brings a contemporary sensibility to the classical poets weave of words, de- and reconstructing meaning by erasure and rearrangement. In accordance with the epigraph from Lucretius, "And so the atoms swerve a little -- they must...," Naylor's text is both scintillatingly atomized and respectful of its source: "To proceed / we perceive / each point remains / minimal / and is / something else / after / crowded order / since they / cling no force can pry them free."
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