Shark's Tooth.Shark's Tooth Marc Elihu Hofstadter Regent Press 6020-A Adeline, Oakland, CA 94608 1587900912 $12.95 www.regentpres.net Shark's Tooth is a remarkable poetry collection drawn from the lyrical lyr·i·cal adj. 1. a. Expressing deep personal emotion or observations: a dancer's lyrical performance; a lyrical passage in his autobiography. b. works of Marc Elihu Hofstadter whose focus is the manifold manifold In mathematics, a topological space (see topology) with a family of local coordinate systems related to each other by certain classes of coordinate transformations. Manifolds occur in algebraic geometry, differential equations, and classical dynamics. elements of the human condition. Shark's Tooth intricately details the philosophical perspective existence and reprise re·prise n. 1. Music a. A repetition of a phrase or verse. b. A return to an original theme. 2. A recurrence or resumption of an action. tr.v. of the mind and tangible embodiment em·bod·i·ment n. 1. The act of embodying or the state of being embodied. 2. One that embodies: "The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history" of the spirit. Looking Forward (for David): What does it matter that we die?/Everything dies--/poppies, antelope, dinosaurs <onlyinclude> This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the superorder Dinosauria, excluding class Aves (birds, both living and those known only from fossils) and purely vernacular terms. ,/mountain peaks, planetoids, black holes--/even the universe may die./If everything that is/expires, maybe death itself will be cancelled/and things will reverse themselves--/nebulae and glaciers/and sycamores and crickets/streaming back, grinning,/greeting each other--/"Of course I remember you!"/Maybe the whole thing will go/back to a new Bang/so that my main moment--/the one when I met you--/will be yet to come. |
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