Poetic Book Review: The Agony of Eros

A poetic review of The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han: “An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.”

Are you what you know? If so, Lose yourself to that which isn’t you. See the outline of home from Far outside And come back changed Cut and reshaped And if loving in faith, eternal True to beauty’s shaking Held by your hands and by another’s Be finished by your own end Or forfeit all desire