by Deborah Landau
appears in Poetry, Poetry, and Fiction.
Deborah Landau_x0092_s fourth book of poetry, Soft Targets, draws a bullseye on humanity_x0092_s vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, the speaker_x0092_s fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an imperiled planet on which all inhabitants are _x0093_soft targets._x0094_ Her melancholic examinations recall life_x0092_s uncanny ability to tran...
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 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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