Poems, Volume X, 2009–2024
If the first Tetralogy traced humanity’s origins in nature, where does the second look instead?
Tetralogy II opens the second of two four-part poetic cycles — a Civilizational Journey in Four Parts — with two long-form syllogies, “The Road” and “The Garden,” composed between 2009 and 2024. Structured on the same architecture as the first Tetralogy, this second cycle shifts its attention away from nature and evolution toward civilization and culture, asking what humanity has built rather than what shaped it.
“The Road” considers questions of path and direction — where a civilization is headed, and by what road it got there — while “The Garden,” composed over fourteen years, draws on the concepts of Atman (soul) and Dharma (path) alongside Western philosophy and myth to trace what remains after loss, and what can still be cultivated afterward. Two further syllogies, “The City” and “The Ruins,” continue the cycle in Volume 13.
For readers of philosophical poetry, long-form verse cycles, and work that traces the architecture of civilization through myth, memory, and meaning.
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ISBN Paperback: 978-1-968289-19-5
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