{"product_id":"9780982656440","title":"Zchenk Among Demons","description":"Zchenk Among Demons blossomed out of hard and exciting work in esoteric philosophy and poetry during the years 1984-87, most of which study was guided by Elizabeth Sewell. Together we explored the “invisible” tradition running, in her reading, from Plotinus through to Yeats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pulse of Demons? A multiplicity of indirections—voices, actors, masks; genres, styles, methods. Layer after layer of self-removal. And how to prosecute philosophy as a made thing, and thus as poetry? “An impossible book,” a reviewer might say, of “post-Wittgenstein neo-Platonism.” A book of aphorisms, poems, arguments, allegories, vignettes, that is itself finally a ficción.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then there was, and is, the aspiration “To Be a True Poem” (Milton, via Sewell) by writing oneself into it. By being written by one’s words, by what one has written, is writing. That much intimacy. A matter of voice. But more than voice—a matter of body. And thus as body, minded. A matter of eros, as Plotinus had taught. And so Demons is finally that—eros and its embodiment.","brand":"est et non books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111217316080,"sku":"9780982656440","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982656440_p0.jpg?v=1763881389","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982656440","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}