This Place of Prose and Poetry

This book is a narrative interspersing prose and poetry within a compatible place. The boundary between these forms is porous for intersections between them are not considered as a negative. Rather they are seen as a method--a way to exemplify the various contents by bringing them into a new and less rigid order--and then to watch them change again. The contents comprise a number of issues: Mind brain (soul) and their philosophical divergences--fact fiction and their pluralities of truth--rationalism empiricism and categorical confusion--an intersection of belief-systems generating a field of unlike places--pornography eroticism and their changing representations. There is a fantasy about the Devils need for art in Hell and some extended frolics with characters out of older comic strips. These are followed by ruminations on dying ending and their separate embellishments. Poems weave through and color all. The broad theme of this book interprets culture as a history of transgressions between competing beliefs: Rigid borders inevitably lead to boredom stasis and oppression. Porous borders can lead to schism communion ecstasy atrocity--as the passing case may be. Lucian Krukowski is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is the author of Before the Beginning During the Middle After the End (2014) Ripe Musings (2011) Aesthetic Legacies (1992) and Art and Concept (1987). He is also a painter.