From Existence to Life - E-book - ePub

Many of us are familiar to some degree with the philosophy of existentialism but regard it as too distant and austere a system of thought. For D. C. Anjaria, however, existentialism is the most sympathetic of the human languages that enable us to share and enjoy together the substance of life. This author's poetry expresses a sensibility that is particularly common to our century: that of a lone soul, restless and yearning for death as the ultimate experience, yet also leaning with nostalgic romanticism toward life and its pleasures, both innocent and guilty. The intractable guilt that has afflicted many of the poets and thinkers of the last several decades is very much a source of the inspiration for D.
C. Anjaria's work. Unlike many contemporary poets, however, Anjaria perceives a living God, albeit one who always seems engaged with the author in an agon of classical dimensions. It is when the heavens shakeThat their dead dust fallsOn the immense nonentity of the universe And, in the same piece: The creation at all, O Creator, Was thy biggest mistake-Suicidal, O God:One of these daysLife will kill you.
Creation will go beyond you. The thoughtful reader can only be stimulated and invigorated by the mind at work in From Existence to Life.