David Appelbaum

An Alchemist at Heart: Poems, 1993-96 David Appelbaum First edition

Imbued with the spirit of the moment, the poems in Alchemist harness the power of intuition in order to reveal the providential call of reality, what Chuang Tzu called the ?third unspoken thing? that binds imagination to the physical world. Here, love letters lie on park benches while the woodpecker sounds an executioner's bell, a rose becomes a koan about death, and hope closes with the first snow.

Features alchemical illustrations from Anatomia auri by Johannes Daniel Mylius, 1628.