Socrates at Verse and Other Philosophical Poems

Christopher Norris Information and Pricing978-1-64317-159-3 (paperback, $19.99); 978-1-64317-160-9 (PDF, $14.99) © 2020 by Parlor Press. 215 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying “I not only want to read it again. I want to emulate it. It’s a liberating model of how, after a career in critical and philosophical prose, a writer can distill and animate the thoughts and thinkers with which and whom he has been long engaged.” —DON BIALOSTOSKY “The poems in Socrates at Verse are not the mythic romantic odes of the nineteenth century, nor the very difficult lyrical sequences of the twentieth. Rather, these poems are more akin to eighteenth century British verse—a “poetry of ideas” that is wonderfully witty and fun. The poems are easy to grasp and understand—more deeply if one has a knowledge of or penchant for the particular philosophers, issues, or ideas treated in each. Reminiscent of the poetic genre dubbe