{"product_id":"all-the-beautiful-confusions-9781923813007","title":"all the beautiful confusions","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilosophers like Immanuel Kant and James I. Porter from the University of California, have argued for an \"aesthetics of life\" that embraces ambiguity, contradiction, and confusion as part of beauty's terrain. Beauty, in this view, is not a pristine object but a mode of engagement-a way of attending to the world that includes its incoherence. A poem that resists interpretation may be confusing but it is not the opposite of beauty-it's a portal into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Austrian poet and writer, Rainer Maria Rilke, explored similar themes in his work and once said that \"beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eall the beautiful confusions\u003c\/em\u003e the surreal and the philosophical meet in a space that's neither resolved nor safe, beauty and confusion not as opposites, but as co-conspirators in the act of revelation. Imagery often begins in the lyrical-evocative, mythic, even tender-and then veers into the surreal or the philosophically disorienting. As Carl Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist maintained in his concept of timelessness-the archetype is beautiful in its resonance but also destabilizing in its ambiguity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems in this collection often balance their fragments with philosophical inquiry, creating a space where participants feel both enchanted and unsettled, using myth not to explain, but to complicate-to suggest that truth might shimmer in the confusion, not beyond it. Here the personal becomes mythic but never loses its emotional ambiguity. Beauty here is not resolution-it's the radiance of the unresolved dwelling in the tension between beauty and confusion, between lyric and abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshadows slipping through\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efingers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot soft\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot fleeting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut heavy \/ clinging \/ holding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etight as regret\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Walleah Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781923813007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d","brand":"John Bartlett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801373929653,"sku":"9781923813007","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/all-the-beautiful-confusions-9781923813007","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}