{"product_id":"elohoic-verses-book-one-mythos-of-elohim-9781462837656","title":"Elohoic Verses Book One ' Mythos of Elohim'","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is a \u0026amp;quote;mythos\u0026amp;quote;?: a \u0026amp;quote;story, speech, or song\u0026amp;quote; that celebrates a sacred narrative. A mythos can be a play, a film, an opera, a narrative within a narrative; above all, a mythopoeic vehicle. A musical coda. A mythologem. A poem. A song that won't go away you hum on your way to somewhere else. Or simply a dream narrative where certain sacred themes repeat themselves throughout human history. The poems in this first book of the Elohoic trilogy verses were written during a ten year period (1989-99)in rural areas throughout the American Southwest. The narrative begins with an invitation, an invocation, to step into \u0026amp;quote;poetic light\u0026amp;quote; and concludes with the seeming death of the poetic\/philosopher persona; along the way, the persona encounters the character of Jesus and his opposite: the Maker of the World-Iaoldaboath-but the poetic character in the mythos haunts certain mystic types: the Lost Pilgrim \u0026amp;quote;still stuck on Eckhart's prayer\u0026amp;quote; encountering Dante in Purgatory; a lover, friend, priest, and shaman. In an enigmatic style, the brevity is as sharp as a Zen master's silence where existence is seen as a poetic experiment in negation, a mimetic deconstruction--thus,in the facing of death an acceptance of death; the stirring of another kind of experience and Being in heart and mind. The poems at times elevate a prophetic and hortatory Voice-its language firmly grounded in an ancient and sacred poetic tradition. But the poetry itself, as poetry, remains informed by an Other; inspired by Kierkegaard's essay \u0026amp;quote;The God as Teacher and Savior\u0026amp;quote; (from which the excerpt is quoted)the poems proceed in a loose narrative form. It tells the story of a poetic risk-taker who is near death from a mountain climbing accident. He is remembering a dream he dreamt at a point from which his life has already ended. That essential material--the emptying of the contents of the dream--becomes the \u0026amp;quote;mythos\u0026amp;quote; of the poetry. Humphrey Bogart (as Sam Spade) best addresses the mysterious nature of the mythos in the last lines of the film \u0026amp;quote;The Maltese Falcon\u0026amp;quote;. When asked \u0026amp;quote;What is it?\u0026amp;quote; Spade responds: \u0026amp;quote;It's the stuff dreams are made of.\u0026amp;quote; Note: The name \u0026amp;quote;Elohim\u0026amp;quote; honors the Elohoic tradition of poetry and songs found in the Bible whose Hebrew name took the form El-o-him (as one of the Names for God) in the Psalms, for example, and in Ecclesiastes, among 9 other books classified as \u0026amp;quote;The Writings\u0026amp;quote;, including Proverbs. For a list of literary sources alluded to in this book, please E-mail the author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52937896001815,"sku":null,"price":1078.47,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9781462837656.jpg?v=1780987360","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/te\/products\/elohoic-verses-book-one-mythos-of-elohim-9781462837656","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}