Imagems 1

<p><em style=background-color: initial>Imagems 1</em> contains six statements by a European poet who challenges modernism and post-modernism alike and extends (beyond) both. Richard Berengarten takes as his twin cues a statement by his mentor and friend Octavio Paz For the first time in our history we are contemporaries of all humanity and a short poem by his other mentor George Seferis. For Berengarten shared humanity is the demanding necessary and irreducible core of all poetics. And its key-of-keys is magnanimity</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>