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Wherever We Are When We Come To The End - poet Richard Barnett (Pic: Isabella Cuan)
We re delighted to present an extract from Wherever We Are When We Come To The End, the new poetry collection by Richard Barnett, published by Valley Press.
Spring 1916: the young philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is on his way to the Eastern Front. Wittgenstein would serve in some of the most brutal battles of the conflict, all the while carrying notes for a future book in his backpack - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the most important and beguiling works of twentieth century philosophy. Published to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of the Tractatus, Wherever We Are When We Come To The End reimagines the wartime experience of the young philosopher, while mimicking the terse, gnomic structure of his groundbreaking work.
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David George Moore
It’s been my privilege to be in the personal spaces of several writers. Among others, Pulitzer winner Tony Horwitz warmly welcomed me at his home on Martha’s Vineyard as did William F. Buckley at his place on Long Island Sound.
I have interviewed over 200 authors. Everyone has their own style with reading, capturing what they have read, research, and then writing. In my own writing I have settled on an approach that certainly has its idiosyncrasies.
Wilfred McClay is Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at The University of Oklahoma. He is author of the best-selling and highly regarded survey of United States History,
Talk about a pivot: after philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his first book,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he grew unhappy, abandoned his teaching post at Cambridge, and started teaching elementary school in rural Austria. The dictionary he created for his students during his time in Austria,
Wörterbuch für Volksschulen
(Dictionary for Elementary Schools), is both a useful tool for students and a document of how Wittgenstein’s philosophy was radically altered through working with children. Now, 100 years later, the first English translation of
Wörterbuch,
Word Book, has been published by Badlands Press translated by Bettina Funcke, with a critical introduction by Dèsirée Weber, and with art by Badlands founder Paul Chan. Chan’s illustrations for