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These are the poems of a Christian pilgrim, a mercurial, twenty-first century believer-priest who characterizes himself, from the outset, as a highly problematic nomad. Poem after poem suggests that, in our postmodern era, one's identity, if ungrounded in the eternal Word, may yield at best either a vanishing semblance of macroscopic reality or its probabilistic trace. That, of course, is the predicament confronted by any compulsive wanderer--a crisis as perceptual in its implications as it is spiritual. Yet the lyrics in On the Care and Feeding of Robots never seek to celebrate a static reality. In other words, here, it is far more than the romantic desire for permanence that agitates the speaker; rather, it is fear of the imminent loss of his spacewalker's dream life that unsettles him. To live as a shuttle astronaut in a universe without access to its numinous meanings is to exist as no more than a ghostly qwiff--a wave ripple in a virtual world.

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"Daniel Orsini's On the Care and Feeding of Robots A Review by Alfred Turco, author of Shaw's Moral Vision: The Self and Salvation ""Meticulously crafted, densely argued, and thematically rich, On the Care and Feeding of Robots is nothing less than a prophecy of redemptive consciousness for humankind in the twenty-first century and beyond. I enthusiastically recommend Daniel Orsini's intriguing and provocative book."" .......................................................... Daniel Orsini's On the Care and Feeding of Robots A Review by Gary R. Grund, author of Humanist Tragedies ""This is a very successful volume, carefully produced and assid-uously organized. Each poem must be read within the context of the whole, like individual threads in a tapestry. The final creation is a collection of strands woven into a distinctive and insightful pattern that speaks to the twenty-first century."""

Daniel Orsini's On the Care and Feeding of Robots A Review by Alfred Turco, author of Shaw's Moral Vision: The Self and Salvation Meticulously crafted, densely argued, and thematically rich, On the Care and Feeding of Robots is nothing less than a prophecy of redemptive consciousness for humankind in the twenty-first century and beyond. I enthusiastically recommend Daniel Orsini's intriguing and provocative book. .......................................................... Daniel Orsini's On the Care and Feeding of Robots A Review by Gary R. Grund, author of Humanist Tragedies This is a very successful volume, carefully produced and assid-uously organized. Each poem must be read within the context of the whole, like individual threads in a tapestry. The final creation is a collection of strands woven into a distinctive and insightful pattern that speaks to the twenty-first century.

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Daniel Orsini is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, where he earned three degrees in English literature (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D.). Daniel has taught for many years at Rhode Island College as a Associate Professor of English. He is the author of Galactic Pilgrim and A User's Guide to Spacetime.

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