Real Weight

Bachelard Interpreted Book 3

Author: Frank Prem Series: Bachelard Interpreted

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Real Weight is Book 3 of 8 in the Bachelard Interpreted series by Frank Prem. The series considers the philosophical contemplations of Gaston Bachelard and translates them into free verse poetry.

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Real Weight is Book 3 of 8 in the Bachelard Interpreted series by Frank Prem. The series considers the philosophical contemplations of Gaston Bachelard and translates them into free verse poetry.

Description

I make this wine

with subtle water

pick -

one by one -

the stars to tread

French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of earth in two books - Earth and Reveries of Repose, and Earth and Reveries of Will.

In Real Weight Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations of the poetic element earth, decanting the vivid imagery contained within the philosopher's work into new and accessible free verse poetic storytelling forms, bringing each story to life.

and the poem she dug

read straight and neat

its subject was springtime

and growing

About the Author

Frank Prem has been a storytelling poet for more than forty years, and has spent his working life in various parts of the public psychiatry system in Victoria (Australia). He has been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies, in Australia and in a number of other countries, and has both performed and recorded his work as 'spoken word'.He and his wife live in the beautiful township of Beechworth in the North East of Victoria.