Ivan Argüelles

Poems

Captive of the Vision of Paradise

Poetry. "Argüelles is the living embodiment of the epic strain. He gives us genuinely singing lines, a music worthy of Homer himself, but in a polyform that Homer could never have imagined. ENIGMA & VARIATIONS integrates an empire's brutal history with parallel mythos and an eternal hymn to the omnipresent goddess with a panoramic scope that defies the limitations of human consciousness. In so doing it opens us to the great mystery beyond"—Jake Barry.

Paradise is Persian for Park

Enigma & Variations

John M. Bennett

Poetry. "CHAC POSTIBULARIO ist ein ootwageous cuncocktioun ov linguadge in un estado ov tootal disschewelmento y abandonmento...Loines sech az 'suerte de hermicranio, indeed, suckers bloom phaster in pfister hose' cunvince der reeder that die zwei Autoren ov dis ouvrage desurf to be hired to rekord saym, in its entoiredad, for der Nashunal Pubick Raydio, to be broadkasted in small porshuns...Durn on, dune in, dip in und oot...Nut rekommendiert fuer reeders undah or ovah (fyll in blank)" - Anselm Hollo.

Chac Prostibulario

Poetry. Photography. Poems by Ivan Argüelles and photographs by Craig Stockfleth.

Illegal Syntax

Looking for Mary Lou

Poetry. Ivan Arguelles' COMEDY, DIVINE, THE is a tour de force of religious passion that never loses its head, that maintains a level of spirituality new to my poetic-eye. This is not to say it has a medium level of intensity or inspiration, rather one has the feeling Arguelles is, in this book, at a new high level of poetic-energy.

The Comedy, Divine

Poetry. "FIAT LUX is Ivan Argüelles' Odyssey through all human history and literature, as well as through the kaleidoscope of his own life memories... Portions of FIAT LUX soar as high as any American poetry since Pound's Pisan Cantos."—Fred Bauman "FIAT LUX is most of all about language, the great gibberishes out of which creation and languages come, and the Law of Time..."—Sharon Doubiago "One can read in FIAT LUX an epic poem as it might be dreamed; or perhaps the dream of a culture in which the epic consciousness has been repressed, yet endlessly renews just beneath the skin of thought, in endless metamorphosis, pursuing mortal pleasure... In this world where Chronos is playful, Freud has shacked up in Pythia, one reads our culture's fevered dreams as oracles and symptoms. These prophetic anxieties are a babel of stories, of voices, of worlds, they are the fragments of languages, scattered like shattered beer bottles or amphorae along the highway."—Olchar E. Lindsann

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