Picard sees all of creation, both visible and invisible, as emerging from the fertile womb of silence, to which adjectives like divine and holy and life-giving might properly be applied: 'it is a positive, a complete world unto itself.' Whether Picard is speaking of God or man, language or music, the world of nature or of human artifice, silence is the lingua franca which he develops in images both aural and (even more strikingly) visual. Picard's great prose poem, like the silence it depicts, 'does not fit into the world of profit and utility; it simply is. It seems to have no other purpose; it cannot be exploited.'
Title:: The World of Silence
ISBN Number:: 0971748314
ISBN-13: 9780971748316
Location Published:: Eighth Day Press: January 2002
Binding:: Paper Back
Book Condition:: New
Categories: Eighth Day Press
Seller ID:: 214498