Scientific Essentials A Study in the Metaphysics of Science

by Xalxo Roshan Praveen

Allen Fisher's place project, started in 1971, culminates with Unpolished Mirrors, a vision of London in history and of the "coming English revolution," in which the poet invents the voices of a gardener, an artist, a woman of the street called Doll, a noble called Watling, and the historical figure of Wren.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

Reviews

[Tentatively, Convenience · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this is, for me, like reading Marcel Duchamp's notes for making the Large Glass: a detailed attempt to make sense of the world thru the writer's idiosyncratic organizing. This is the largest of the PLACE bks I have. The 1st 5 of "TWENTY-FIVE MEMORY JARS":

"Objects left from a party.
An orchid and a postage stamp.
Billiard chalks dissolving.
A root and a china pig.
Pencil sharpener inside a model duck
with a coil of wool discarded from knitting."