Totem of Tautology: from a Sense of I to a Sense of Awe!

Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D., psychologist in private practice, is the author of "Eating the Moment" (New Harbinger, 2008), "Present Perfect" (NH, 2010), and "The Lotus Effect" (NH, 2010)."Totem of Tautology" is a collection of over 350 "post-meditational" poems.About the title: Tautology is traditionally associated with circular explanations and redundancy of articulation. And yet tautology, as a phenomenon of expression, spontaneously presents itself in our attempts to verbalize the...
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Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D., psychologist in private practice, is the author of "Eating the Moment" (New Harbinger, 2008), "Present Perfect" (NH, 2010), and "The Lotus Effect" (NH, 2010)."Totem of Tautology" is a collection of over 350 "post-meditational" poems.About the title: Tautology is traditionally associated with circular explanations and redundancy of articulation. And yet tautology, as a phenomenon of expression, spontaneously presents itself in our attempts to verbalize the complexity of the simplicities that befuddle us. Thus, tautology is both a confusing clarification and, paradoxically, a moment of clarity. This collection of poems, in its occasionally tautological manner, pursues a theme of polarity reversal of the “totem” of self-hood, from a sense of “I” to a sense of awe! It is my poetic hope, that in putting the dot not over the “I” but beneath it, you will appreciate the tautology of our self-exclamatory self-referencing. Enjoy the clarity of confusion.www.eatingthemoment.com