by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Recommended by Rolf Potts
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Poetry, Most Recommended Books, and Poetry.
In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note_x0097_a sensuous love song to the Earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion, inviting in the grief of an elephant, the icy eyes of a scallop, _x0093_the ribs / of a silver silo,_x0094_ and the bright flash of painted fingernails. With unmatched sincerit...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Poetry, Most Recommended Books, and Poetry.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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