The Fine Structure Constant

ISBN: 0595098312

Author: Whittingslow, Keith

Condition: Used

The author explores the world of communication in his poetry. By way of experimental verse he seeks to open possible new channels of meaning and understanding. His experimentation with new word forms can assist in the transformation of conventional thought into new dimensions of consciousness. "Keith Whittingslow's words dance like penetrating Light mirrors in this rare collection of enchanting, entertaining, and enlightening prose-poetry. This work is a must for all readers interested in the pursuit of cognition."Sharon Franquemont, author of You Already Know What To Do and Intuition: Your Electric Self "Keith's poems conjure a vast ocean in which soul and science ripple together. Dive into these delightful waves and swim in the vastness."Dan Clurman, author of Floating Upstream "In this collection, you can just taste the appetite Keith Whittingslow has for language and ideas. Similar to the late Bucky Fuller's book Intuition, the Apollonian, erudite, rationative precision and clarity of the natural philosopher is here, but that can only get one so far, and Whittingslow wants to do more. So he heroically allows himself to self-deconstruct into a Dionysian creative reprocessing of what he's been used to reading and writing about in a more rule-bound manner. As a result, we can now experience the combinatory play and wedding festivities of a fine intellect pushing its own envelope, with linguistic and ideational adventurous juxtapositions that reflect chance-taking experimentation taking the reader to the edge of what a disciplined human language-wielding mind such as his pines to do, dancing out of its usual constraints to reach for new ways of capturing truth for itself and conveying in turn. Whittingslow does a great job of breaking up the usual prosaic language/mind flow with all the still-clear cut pieces in it now reforming kaleidoscopically, like fellow poet Shelley's 'many colored dome of glass' through which we feel the light of