Encounters: American Poets on Paul Celan

Personal Encounters in Near Death Experiences by Paul Eddy

While discussing a metaphysical argument for postmortem survival, David Ray Griffin says that near death experiences (NDE's) offer "impressive evidence" for human survival of death. [1] Griffin asks his readers to examine the data "with the presupposition that it might be genuine." [2] After one page Griffin wraps up his discussion with the modest claim that the evidence may "lead one to conclu...

Banishing the Poets

The main argument of this monograph,* if I understand it rightly (something its rather cloudy writing makes me uncertain of), is that the body of works often (and traditionally) grouped together under the rubric ‘ancient literary criticism’ should be understood not as contributions to aesthetics or criticism of literature as these terms are commonly understood today but rather as political inte...

POETS: Process-oriented event-driven transaction systems

We present a high-level enterprise system architecture that closely models the domain ontology of resource and information flows in enterprises. It is: Process-oriented: formal, user-definable specifications for the expected exchange of resources (money, goods, and services), notably contracts, are represented explicitly in the system state to reflect expectations on future events; Event-driven...

Considers six of his favourite poets

This patient underwent breast surgery and a sentinel node biopsy performed shortly before the blood was taken. As part of the biopsy procedure, a dye (Patent Blue) is injected into the lymphatic system. After injection, patients are commonly noted to take on a grey appearance, and urine has a green discolouration . A striking green appearance of the serum has also been reported, but is seen unc...

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