The Art of Avoidance: Fraser Sutherland
The Art of Avoidance"We have learned to avert our eye from animal and human suffering," writes Fraser Sutherland in his poem . That might be true, at least sometimes - there is so much pain constantly surrounding us that we try to seek a short recess, a cowardly, but so human-like closing of the eyes even if for a moment, even if it is just to catch a breath... Nevertheless, the pain will be there to hunt the poet, to hunt us. The pessimistic worldview of unavoidable hierarch