
Twelve Roman Thresholds (Instructor Edition)
A Structural History of Rome in Twelve Poems
J. A. Gucci(Author)
Pressure System Press
Published on 1. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
68 pages
978-1-972788-08-0 (ISBN)
Description
Full Description (Ingram - Instructor Edition)
Twelve Roman Thresholds (Instructor Edition) is a classroom-ready text that presents Roman history through structured, system-based poetry. Designed for secondary and early higher education, this edition reframes Rome not as a sequence of events, but as a dynamic system operating under increasing pressure.
Each of the twelve poems models a natural process-geological fracture, hydrological flow, biological parasitism, or astronomical collapse-providing instructors with a concrete framework for guiding students through patterns of accumulation, instability, and transformation. Using the method of Absolute Composition, the book shifts focus away from interpretation and toward structural observation, training students to identify how systems build, strain, and cross critical thresholds.
This Instructor Edition expands the core text with direct pedagogical support, including:
structural breakdowns of each poem
system correspondences across domains (matter, mind, being)
targeted discussion prompts and analytical questions
frameworks for identifying thresholds, limits, and irreversible change
These tools enable instructors to facilitate interdisciplinary learning across history, literature, and systems thinking, while encouraging active student participation. Rather than receiving meaning, students engage the text as analysts-locating pressure points, tracing instability, and recognizing the moment a system can no longer sustain itself.
Within the larger Twelve series, this volume represents Rome as a civilization defined by expansion pushed beyond its limits. It functions as both a literary work and an instructional framework, equipping students to understand how complex systems evolve-and what happens when they break.
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Edition
Instructor ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
99 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-972788-08-0 (9781972788080)
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