{"product_id":"socrates-is-mortal","title":"Socrates is Mortal","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Stephen Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Dos Madres (2025)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSocrates Is Mortal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e weren’t a textbook example of a syllogism (All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore), it might be the title of a situational comedy set somewhere deep in Pascal’s “eternal silence of infinite spaces.” Minor poetic genres—the epigram, the song, the fable, the fragment, the joke, the imagistic aperçu, the spell—converge in a grotesque carnival of expirations and nativities. The book’s five sets of poems—“Dead End \/ Ad Infinitum”; “Don’t Move”; “Phosphorescent Fiction”; “Click”; and “Origin Pit”—move through openings in history, myth, popular culture, public and private life, language, and logic itself, while its recursive structures seek to restore a distinction between tragedy and farce.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44030100602979,"sku":"9781962847407","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/image_c592dbf9-992f-4400-b95e-81ffe70c09bc.jpg?v=1772322886","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/socrates-is-mortal","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}