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Nine Acanthus Pillars

Nine Acanthus Pillars

Hammond, L. P.

Hardcover

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1304052605
ISBN13: 9781304052605
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Sep 23 2024
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this poetic manifesto, L.P. Hammond draws upon the strength of nine virtues that stand with regal fierceness/in the temple of the soul to declaim a series of potent images evoking the terrible power of the spoken word made prisoner yet found libertine within the printed page. With raw lucidity and untrammeled honesty Hammond delights and broods, exults and swoons, laments and extols the lonesome pilgrim toil/across a vale of misery bedeviled/where the winsome and the wise/sip a common wine/from chalices too potent for distempered/frolicsome humankind/whose limp disguise renders meaningless/every whinging grimace/in poor display at the pantomime war/within a gloomy soul lost in its own dismal shade. Nine Acanthus Pillars sets forth not merely a new tone in his poetic canon, but signals a call to inner examination of our own principles that guide as poor lanterns/creaking bleakly in a snowstorm/of our own blind desires.

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