Heard Herds

»The world – hardly imaginable – is the interieur of speech.« And the hearths of speech aggregate in »preliminary stages of the fusion of processions of images that pass by before the resting eye« a poem of more than 1,000 nine-line stanzas, »stanzas of discreet continuity«. There sleeps Poemander, shepherd of the Hermetica, stoking the fire and minding the hearths of his tradition which illuminates its »vigil in language«. The opulent collection of poetry also hints at the possibilities of poetry in apostilles and iconic reading and orientation guides: criticising its judgment where language ends without the casual »junk of pure reason,« entering into a self-evident moiré of speech »in pursuit of its future«. A counter-poem that intertwines awareness, expectation and memory word for word into the strands of poetic tradition. Eclogue, ode and didactic poem all in one – as a vividly precisely conceptualised, sensuous entanglement: »Bit by bit poetry is an image all in all.«