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A Cleansing Flame: Bachelard Interpreted Book 2

By Frank Prem
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By Frank Prem
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when he turned the hourglass

the sand ran up

as he knew it would

deep contemplation

so often turns life

on its head

The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of flame and fire in three books - The Psychoanalysis of Fire, The Flame of a Candle, and the unfinished Fragments of a Poetics of Fire.

In A Cleansing Flame, Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations of the poetic element fire, decanting the vivid imagery contained within the philosopher's work i...