{"product_id":"lumen-gloriae-by-frank-samperi","title":"'Lumen Gloriae'. by Frank Samperi","description":"\u003ch4\u003eThe final volume of Frank Samperi’s major trilogy, following \u003cem\u003eThe Prefiguration\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eQuadrifariam\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLumen Gloriae\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of radically compressed spiritual poetry: tiny verbal structures suspended in unusually generous fields of white space, where syntax, typography and silence are doing nearly as much work as the words themselves.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamperi was influenced by Dante, Thomas Aquinas and the Objectivist tradition, but the resulting poetry is difficult to place neatly anywhere. Mystical vision passes through streets, bodies, weather and the ordinary particulars of New York; transcendence arrives not by escaping the material world but by looking at it until it begins to open. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title comes from the theological idea of the \u003cem\u003elumen gloriae\u003c\/em\u003e, the “light of glory” through which the mind becomes capable of apprehending the divine. Samperi’s poems repeatedly test what language can do at that threshold. Words thin out, move across the page and become spatial events; apparently slight observations acquire a strange metaphysical pressure. The result is hermetic without being ornamental: austere, devotional and formally beautiful, especially for readers interested in concrete poetry, Objectivism, Catholic mysticism, Dante, or poets for whom the blank page is an active part of composition. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrossman Publishers, 1973. First edition paperback, designed and produced by Mushinsha Limited, Japan; printed in Japan. Light rubbing, handling marks and age-toning to covers; internally clean and sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45941998714963,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/women_in_translation_7.png?v=1786162811","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/lumen-gloriae-by-frank-samperi","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}