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Here, 37 axial stones are displayed in dazzling full-page color photos. The accompanying text explains not only how the stones were found and eventually came together, but explores the aesthetic, philosophical, spiritual, and practical implications of an art of danger and impermanence. 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As they bring us to the verge of unintelligibility, entanglement becomes an embrace and we generate new powerful meanings- not once for all but in a succession of instants that carry us from line to line, page to page, precipitating us into an expansive, endlessly renewable present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656729665809,"sku":"GOR012866563","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061073477905,"sku":"NIN9781949966947","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52405841395985,"sku":"NLS9781949966947","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1949966941.jpg?v=1751219447"},{"product_id":"beowulf-book-george-quasha-9780671005504","title":"Beowulf","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49909920956689,"sku":"CIN0671005502A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0671005502.jpg?v=1751041203"},{"product_id":"america-a-prophecy-book-george-quasha-9781581771268","title":"America a Prophecy","description":"Poetry. African American Studies. Native American Studies. When Thoreau wrote in his \u003cem\u003eJournal\u003c\/em\u003e in 1841, Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets, and when Whitman describes \u003cem\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e as a language experiment, they are expressing an approach to poetry that never ceased and has grown continuously during recent decades.\u003cbr\u003eThis groundbreaking anthology from the early 1970s takes such an approach in presenting the poetry of the North American continent, from pre-Columbian times to the present. It includes many recognized poets of the period, though appearing here in often unexpected contexts, and others who have been overlooked but whose contributions to the development of poetry are revolutionary. 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