{"product_id":"the-four-horsemen-peter-oleary","title":"The Four Horsemen [Peter O'Leary]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[Apocalyptic] [Poetry] [Art]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Four Horsemen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter O'Leary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cultural Society, NY. 2025. New.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteven Toussaint says:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"In The Four Horsemen, O’Leary turns his eye to Dante, Milton, Blake, and Whitman. His critical style is enthusiastic, quite literally “god-possessed.” His passwords are vision, power, and transmission. His reading is fired by conviction: that the revelatory imperatives of apocalyptic poetry flout our current cultural inertia and spiritual despair. The result is a book of true importance, which is less concerned with rewriting literary history than with seeing what happens when the shocking and destabilizing language of poets works on the souls of other poets, on O’Leary himself, over time, and then with following those lines of force wherever they lead. As rigorous as it is rapturous, The Four Horsemen is the best guide I know for how to live intensely with poetry.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eO'Leary's rapturous poeticism finds itself wrangled into essay form here, doing deep dives into the works of Dante, Milton, Blake and Whitman. True story - when I was at Evergreen I dreamt of teaching a class that was functionally this,called \"The Voice of the Apocalypse\" though we'd swap Whitman out for Laszlo Krasnazhorkai...but Peter beat me to it. It's our gain, honestly, as this book is an absolute masterpiece of poetic history. Jump in immediately. Break the seals. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alarum Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48716163612980,"sku":null,"price":21.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/4895\/3652\/files\/PXL_20250721_171934364.jpg?v=1753127611","url":"https:\/\/alarumbooks.com\/products\/the-four-horsemen-peter-oleary","provider":"Alarum Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}