The Philosophy of As If

by Fraser Sutherland

THE PHILOSOPHY OF AS IF is a poetry collection that describes ideas that may not correspond with reality but help us to interact with reality better. Fiction writers often say that they tell a higher truth, but poets like to pretend that what they write is sincere, direct truth-telling. However poems are also fictions, and deal with what might be. Poets behave as if the world matches their models. The poems in this collection play...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978439562
• ISBN13: 9780978439569
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Bookland Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"