The reach of Divine Ratios is global, ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contemporary Baltimore, post-World War II Berlin, and the landscapes of the Mountain West.
With striking juxtapositions of natural and cultural wonders, this enrapturing volume asks, what is the right proportion--or ratio--for living in a world of such splendors, horrors, and possibilities?.
The speed and mobility evoked in this new collection by Jacqueline Osherow are not only physical--a traveler\'s movement in a crowded, thrilling world--but imaginative, and its poetic idiom is no less varied, as a breezy conversational tone serves as a counterpoint to traditional form.
The reach of Divine Ratios is global, ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contemporary Baltimore, post-World War II Berlin, and the landscapes of the Mountain West
