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“The translucent transience of life flowing has seldom been more poignantly and pertinently evoked. Bin Ramke's Airs, Waters, Places is magisterial. He is our Heraclitus.”—John Ashbery

“There is a Shelleyan grandeur here. In Airs, Waters, Places Bin Ramke writes lyric drama of very great heart, a drama whose troubling theme is nothing less than the Tragedy of Wisdom. With exacting energies, these poems test measure, test mind itself against real death. In the end, humanness shows forth nobly, consumed by fires stolen from Fire. This is permanent poetry.”—Donald Revell, author of There Are Three and Beautiful Shirt

from “Watery”
Nietzsche admired Thales admiring clarity (water as father)
water as everything, in its way—the world. As if,