Ventriloquise by Ned Denny #Chileanpoetry or complex emotions about love

or complex emotions about love

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Ventriloquise by Ned Denny #Chileanpoetry or complex emotions about loveNed Denny's startling new collection recalls what Heidegger says in his essay on Hoelderlin about the poet, of all mortals, reaching most deeply into the abyss. In what does this abyss, the "world's night," consist? In the fact that the gods have departed, and in the rootless, heaven proof and now worldwide technocracy forged in their absence. Yet the poet is also the one who sees, in that night, the lost gods' traces, and there are glimpses here