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The Chronosphere Commentary|Alan Atkisson

The Chronosphere Commentary : Reflections on a poem about time

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The courage of a friend who faced death, a scientific meeting on sustainability and systems thinking, and a tragi-comic poem in 61 verses are the starting points for these 61 short, luminous essays on the human relationship to time. Begun as a letter to the friend's now-adult daughter, who had written to the author seeking to understand a mysterious poem dedicated to her father over 20 years previously, "The Chronosphere Commentary" takes the reader on a journey that varies from playful to philosophical to achingly personal, ultimately confronting the unreliability of memory and the unavoidable shortness of human life in the context of a vast, ancient universe.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780991102266
  • ISBN-10: 0991102266
  • Publisher: Atkisson, Inc.
  • Publish Date: October 2020
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.26 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.38 pounds
  • Page Count: 122

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