Part 2 of 3
III.
Solid ground is death; it’s the rule of matter and the mundane; both air and water are the alternative, the boundary between the nominal and the Real it refuses to see. Yet, terms like “desert” or “tundra” refer to the lonely life of non-affirmation. One cannot create a substitute world; civilization is materialization of dominance. Read more …
The Ukrainian Solzhenitsyn:
The Poetry of Vasyl Stus, Part 3
Part 3 of 3
Stus illustrates the idea of meaningless toil that ends only in death in this excerpt: Read more …