Flowers of Sulphur
• Poetry
• Paperback
Description: Over a decade in the making, Flowers of Sulphur marks a fresh phase in Mario Petrucci’s engagement with the fundamentals of human existence. Disarmingly various, these remarkable new poems alert us to the resistance, as much as to the malleability, of language and life. They reconcile – like the quantum world they reflect – apparently paradoxical qualities, combining clarity and complexity, fusing science with psyche, in forms as precise as they are compelling. Pungent with experience, here is a poetry that, moment to moment, reinvents itself so as to unsettle- and inspire. ‘Far-seeing, generous, intelligent, full of humanity.’ Maura Dooley ‘Twin engines drive Mario Petrucci's poetry: one engine is a personal and cultural knowledge of the sweep of European history; the other is a scientific understanding few poets have. Between them, these engines take Mario's poetry to dazzling heights.’
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