Centre and Circumference

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Centre and Circumference is written by Howard F. Stein and published by Mindmend Publishing Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1942431090 (ISBN 10) and 9781942431091 (ISBN 13).

Poetry is as "at once the centre and circumference of knowledge; ... that which comprehends all science...; [it] enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts" (Percy Shelley, 1821). Besides all, poetry is not an afterthought and poor second to regal science, but it liberates and revitalizes thought. Far from being diminished by science, poetry can inform and rescue science as well as it can be better understood by science.Far from representing a forever turning-away from the world, poetry, whose nerve endings reach both outward and inward in constant dialogue, is an essential instrument for knowing the world. ¿Subjectivity¿ is an instrument of greater, not lesser, ¿objectivity.¿ The poet¿s unconscious is stimulated by worlds within and beyond, in a kind of eternal dance. Words, as written, read, spoken, or heard, are the fruit of this dance. The poet does not write in a void. All creativity is intersubjective, the fruit of dialogue.Dr. Howard Stern, the author of this volume, hopes that the poems in this collection will enlarge the compass of reader's imagination, of his/ her world, and of his/ her engagement with it. The author also has wish that dwells in the invisible bond between poet and reader ¿ in the words inscribed by Beethoven on his Missa Solemnis, ¿From the heart, may it go again to the heart¿ (¿Von Herzen, möge es wieder, zu Herzen gehen!¿).