Reviews for Poets, politics, and the people

The average rating for Poets, politics, and the people based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-11-22 00:00:00 Christopher Picon This book is a hidden gem, and was exactly what I was needing to read in the next stage of diving down the rabbit hole. Having read now hundreds of books on consciousness, the mind, our thoughts, metaphysics, self-help, etc, this book shocked me at it's contents. In the library one day, I was in the old section (which has the most useful, original, and priceless bits of information hidden away), and was scouring through the rows and came across this book. The title instantly grabbed my attention. I opened to a random page, and had that bibliomancy sort of experience, where you open to a random page and it was exactly what you were looking for or needed to read beyond coincidence. The book is full of academic knowledge, it has Alan Watts and Emerson within it. It has poetry throughout, which I have come to understand in such a fuller and different way after this book. There is no boring page, I have my "Knowledge Journal" which I write down key insights from every book, I've filled up so many by now. But this book has so much to write down and reflect on it's crazy! It's 249 pages of content, and the Chapters are: Imagination, the Unifying Power | Every Common Sight | Time and the Eternal Now | Ego and Self | Cosmos | Play. I would recommend this book to anyone, as if I hadn't had the intuition to randomly check a row of books I never thought I would, it was in the music section ironically, I would've never came across this eye opening book which is phenomenal!

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-24 00:00:00 Andre Bayhansen 3 stars because I bought this not realising it was a literary/academic text so was a bit disappointed but by way of the index I found Mr Durr had included some of my favourite authors/teaching and had a quick read of those parts. If I was writing an thesis or essay on the subject then perhaps this book would have been of more interest to me. Well laid out.