Wittgenstein's Ladder : Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Condition:Very Good and the very foundations of

and the very foundations of the Roman Empire could be shattered irrevocably

profoundly moving

an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat

Renaissance Florence

illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

Wittgenstein's Ladder : Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Condition:Very Good and the very foundations ofMarjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the "poet." What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but