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Wittgenstein's Ladder : Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Condition:Very Good are a superb depiction ofMarjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the "poet." What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but