Poems: Brief Intervals
ROBB: A Gnostical Closet Drama In Two Acts
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The Poetry section of the book makes frequent use of the fictional fiery dragon traditionally wrought as both a serpent and a bird in its relation to the fictional nature of a virgin that represents a pure or immanent form of potential. But such mythogenic poems share space with poems of a comely nature and often in parody mocking a modern way of life. This would follow in the American tradition known as “Dark Rromanticism” exemplified by Melville and Poe and running, as such, counter to the Transcendental idealism of Emerson that was more concerned with the implementation of a perfect social structure by way of communes and later defined as Socialism. The Dark Romanticists, by contrast emphasized the inner experience of the sublime as defined by Edmund Burke composed in fear and dread.
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“The present work combines two different forms but of similar content: a poetic form and a dramatic form noted as “closet” drama because intended for reading rather than a staged production. In both cases erotic content is presented in allusion to a variety of metaphors overlapped in the erotic play of opposites. Any literal erotic content is thus ambivalent insofar as the sublime aspect of cuniunctio competes with its common and familiar demonstrations.
Bernard X Bovasso July 4th 2010
Front cover illustration by the author.
About the Author
Although Bernard X Bovasso is essentially a painter and poet, he has published three works in the subjects of Psychology and Ontology for AuthorHouse Pub:
1):The Polyimagical Realm:
2):The Masculine Mysteries:
3):Animus Rising.