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    Of Life Reviewed: Philosophy in Flight on the Wings of Poetry
    Of Life Reviewed: Philosophy in Flight on the Wings of Poetry
    Of Life Reviewed: Philosophy in Flight on the Wings of Poetry
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    Of Life Reviewed: Philosophy in Flight on the Wings of Poetry

    By Walter Slack

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    In this philosophical reflection on lifes ideologies in poetic form, author Walter Slack examines life and strips it bare of superficial elements. Poetrythe medium of the soulshould also appeal to the mind. Verse fails if it does not at times afford the intellect a certain enjoyment and stimulation of further thought. Such is the aim and hope of the poetry contained within these pages.

    This collection of poetry attempts an integration of process theology and ethical humanism. It seeks to deal with the nature of the universe and our relationship to that universe. God is treated here with all the joy, abandon, precision and limitations which poetry permit. At times the poetry herein speaks the sublime language of theology; at other times it utters the hard, blunt voice of mill hands and coal miners. In the end, poetry can have little merit if it does not strive to portray us in our real situations of loving, suffering, enjoying, fighting and dying.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 13, 2015
    ISBN9781491772225
    Of Life Reviewed: Philosophy in Flight on the Wings of Poetry
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    Walter Slack

    Walter Slack’s scholarly interests include researching political philosophy and history. He earned a PhD from the University of Iowa.

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