The Earth - hardly imaginable - is the realm of discourse. And the herd of discourse aggregates in "Preliminary Stages of the Fusion of Series of Figures that Pass Before the Resting Eye," a poem of more than 1000 nineteen-line stanzas, "Stanzas of Discreet Continuity." There, Poemander, the shepherd of the hermetics, sleeps, tending and guarding the herd of his tradition, which illuminates its "Awakening in Language." The opulent collection of poems also suggests, through glosses as well as iconic reading and orientation aids, the possibilities of lyricism: without the hasty "Rubbish of Pure Reason" where language ceases to be a critique of its judgment, entering "Guild of its Future" into a self-explanatory moiré of discourse. A counter-poem that faithfully intertwines attention, expectation, and memory in strands of the lyrical tradition. Eclogue, ode, and didactic poem in one - as vivid.