The first edition of this book (E.H. Weber: The Sense of Touch, Academic Press, 1978) has long been out of print. But interest in Weber's work continues and this revised edition commemorates the bicentenary of his birth. The introduction has been expanded to include further information on Weber's life and times, and on recent research relevant to Weber's own work. The translations of Weber's main works of psychological interest (De Tactu and Der Tastsinn und das Gemeingefuhl) contain minor changes, and the footnotes and indexes have been updated. The reader will find here much more than those...
The first edition of this book (E.H. Weber: The Sense of Touch, Academic Press, 1978) has long been out of print. But interest in Weber's work continu...
David J. Murray's "Confusion Matrix and Other Poems" is a collection of poetry that weaves together many different components of life using the thread of our most unavoidable emotion-confusion. Language and content combine beautifully as Murray seamlessly blends concrete detail into abstraction. This mellifluous marriage of the tangible and the universal shows that confusion is an emotion as valuable to the human experience as fear or grief or even love. We move smoothly from one aspect of life to another, from one poem to the next, carried along by the familiar and inevitable undercurrent of...
David J. Murray's "Confusion Matrix and Other Poems" is a collection of poetry that weaves together many different components of life using the thread...
David J. Murray's "Confusion Matrix and Other Poems" is a collection of poetry that weaves together many different components of life using the thread of our most unavoidable emotion-confusion. Language and content combine beautifully as Murray seamlessly blends concrete detail into abstraction. This mellifluous marriage of the tangible and the universal shows that confusion is an emotion as valuable to the human experience as fear or grief or even love. We move smoothly from one aspect of life to another, from one poem to the next, carried along by the familiar and inevitable undercurrent of...
David J. Murray's "Confusion Matrix and Other Poems" is a collection of poetry that weaves together many different components of life using the thread...
"Pursuit and Other Poems" offers a new collection of poetry presented in two parts, each of which highlights an extreme event that is part of a romantic experience. The first part is entitled "Ode in Emerging from an Overdose," a single long poem that describes author David J. Murray's feelings when he was rescued from an unpremeditated suicide attempt. The second part is entitled "Pursuit" and contains 114 poems that chronicle Murray's emotional experiences with unrequited love.
Deeply personal and yet universal in nature, Murray's verse speaks to the hope and heartbreak of the human...
"Pursuit and Other Poems" offers a new collection of poetry presented in two parts, each of which highlights an extreme event that is part of a rom...
