What's history? Dante Aligheri ensconced Joachim of Fiore, di spirito profetico dotato , in the heaven of the wise ( Paradiso XII) as testament to the earlier writer's visionary exegesis of John's Apocalypse, the scripture's last book, from which the Calabrian abbot exegeted a pictorial history of the world's successive stages, culminating in the age of the Holy Spirit. David Brazil's FIGURAE collects the first eight fascicles of a projected sequence of twenty-two into a singular meditation on form, time, hope, faith, and song. We grow out of the Bible : Paul Celan. Come and see. Poetry.