{"product_id":"9781453534175","title":"Greatest Living Poet","description":"\u003cp\u003eThat there is poetry is the only evidence that man truly exists. Mark Staber Kobo is a modern American poet and philosopher, also known by name Mark Chandos, author of the famous space faring epic poem Chandos Ring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreatest Living Poet: Strange Gods, Bulk Prophecies represents the highest form of lyric poetry in contemporary literature. In his book, Mark Staber Kobo attempts to restate the central problems of modern poetry. He presents a very clear and healing answer to how to write modern poetry - and shows how each poem creates a new language and represents a break with the past.  He poses the question: What is the problem with modern poetry? The poetry of the last century sought to solve the incongruence of poetic language in the modern world by resorting to newspaper prose. Greatest Living Poet recovers the prestige of poetry by showing that human mind, itself, is a poetic protocol. The central thesis of Mark Kobo is that modernism has mistaken how human consciousness operates. Science, in his view, itself, is a poetic representation of reality. Therefore, Kobo creates a new lyric language to prove this phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is an example from the book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCopper Floods\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack pools gave up arms and men where none would touch the\u003cbr\u003e water since all was let loose under, stitched in their brain,\u003cbr\u003e battenedon bone, a finger from a tailor's seam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey thought once never to see a stranger thing\u003cbr\u003eas floods lifting coffins from their planting,\u003cbr\u003estill bright and burnished and harlot deep\u003cbr\u003ewho made a bed where all could see.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was one who never chose one country,\u003cbr\u003eone copper house, and curse all staying;\u003cbr\u003erooms, like lovers, with just one corner good,\u003cbr\u003enot keep again as spouse, as child, accusers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have raised dead in many cities and will see more;\u003cbr\u003eall the brass here has been touched;\u003cbr\u003eheart and bone made lighter now\u003cbr\u003ehalf stitches rubrics splitting seams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have always changed your house; already\u003cbr\u003eI have placed a shout inside your dark sobbing\u003cbr\u003ethat does not suffer long a little room and shuns\u003cbr\u003eall steady lodging. I will always send you floods,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esome to take away, some to raise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have dug in many fields and will find more\u003cbr\u003eno margin for the water on my lids;\u003cbr\u003ethey cross this lake who shave its frost,\u003cbr\u003ethey swim this night who still can sleep\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eon splitting beams, on drowning beds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155128500464,"sku":"9781453534175","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453534175_p0.jpg?v=1763850682","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453534175","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}