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Author |
: Christopher Wagstaff |
Publisher |
: North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages |
: 489 |
Release |
: 2012-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781583944547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1583944540 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Poet's Mind by : Christopher Wagstaff
Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of the major postwar American poets, was an adulated figure among his contemporaries, including Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov. Lawrence Ferlinghetti remarked that Duncan "had the best ear this side of Dante." His stature is increasingly recognized as comparable to that of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D., and Louis Zukofsky. Like his poetry, Duncan's conversation is generative and multi-directional, pushing out the boundaries of discourse. His recorded reflections are a means of discovery and exploration, and whether talking with a college student or a fellow poet, he was fully engaged and open to new thoughts as they emerged. The exchanges in this book are exciting and lively. His vast and wide-ranging knowledge offers readers an increased understanding of the interrelations of the arts, history, psychology, and science; those who would like to learn about Duncan's own life, his bravery in being an out gay man well before Stonewall, and his friendships with fellow writers, such as Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, and Kenneth Rexroth, will find this book richly rewarding. The six volumes of Duncan's collected writings are being issued by the University of California Press. The collected interviews are an indispensable companion to these books, providing an in-depth exposition of his poetics, which center on the belief that the poem is "a medium for the life of the spirit." In A Poet's Mind, he describes the genesis of some of his works, including that of books, essays, and individual poems, and also discusses gay love and life, along with the many diverse influences on his work. Ducan's fertile creative mind is also evident in these conversations: often coming back to Ezra Pound in these conversations, he gives one of the clearest expositions to be found anywhere on the scope and meaning of The Cantos. This volume also includes a number of photographs never before published.
Author |
: Russell Meares |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2016-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317367697 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317367693 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poet's Voice in the Making of Mind by : Russell Meares
How did the human mind evolve and how does it emerge, again and again, in individual lives? In The Poet’s Voice in the Making of Mind, Russell Meares presents a fascinating inquiry into the origin of mind. He proposes that the way in which mind, or self, evolved, may resemble the way it emerges in childhood play and that a poetic, analogical style of thought is a biological necessity, essential to bringing to fruition the achievement of the human mind. Taking a fresh look at the language used in psychotherapy, he shows how language, and conversation in particular, is central to the development and maintenance of self. His theory incorporates the ideas from William James, Hughlings, Jackson, Janet, Hobson, Gerald Edelman, Wolf Singer, Vygotsky and others. It is illuminated by extracts from literary artists such as Wallace Stevens, W.S. Merwin, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad and Shakespeare. Encompassing psychotherapy; psychoanalysis; evolution; child development; literary criticism; philosophy; studies of mind and consciousness, The Poet’s Voice in the Making of Mind is an engaging, ground-breaking and thought-provoking work that will appeal to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, as well as anyone interested in the emergence of mind and self.
Author |
: Janine Joseph |
Publisher |
: Alice James Books |
Total Pages |
: 131 |
Release |
: 2023-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781948579391 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1948579391 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decade of the Brain: Poems by : Janine Joseph
In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American citizen who suffers from post-concussive memory loss after a major auto accident. The collection is an odyssey of what it means to recover—physically and mentally—in the aftermath of trauma and traumatic brain injury, charting when “before” crosses into “after.” Through connected poems, buckling and expansive syntax, ekphrasis, and conjoined poetic forms, Decade of the Brain remembers and misremembers hospital visits, violence and bodily injury, intimate memories, immigration status, family members, and the self. After the accident I turned out all of the lights in the room while I watched, concussed, from the mirror. I edged like a fever with nothing on the tip of my tongue.
Author |
: Jack Cooper |
Publisher |
: World Audience Inc |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781934209370 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1934209376 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Across My Silence by : Jack Cooper
Stephen D. Chandler, author of "The Story of You," writes about "Across My Silence, "One need not be a passionate conservationist or lover of animals to be charmed by Cooper's admiration of them. The awe he feels in "The Turtles of La Escobilla" for the turtles' unstoppable life force in the face of human cruelty runs deeper than an environmentalist's tantrum. And that, in the end, is the deep place where only poetry can go. Beyond the topical and beyond the political into the eternal. Cooper's poems are all tickets to that deep place."
Author |
: William Wordsworth |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1851 |
ISBN-10 |
: BSB:BSB10753055 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind by : William Wordsworth
Author |
: Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 1958 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811200418 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811200417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Coney Island of the Mind by : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
Author |
: Maureen N. McLane |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2014-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466875050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466875054 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Poets by : Maureen N. McLane
A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell "Oh! there are spirits of the air," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, My Poets explores a life reading and a life read. McLane invokes in My Poets not necessarily the best poets, nor the most important poets (whoever these might be), but those writers who, in possessing her, made her. "I am marking here what most marked me," she writes. Ranging from Chaucer to H.D. to William Carlos Williams to Louise Glück to Shelley (among others), McLane tracks the "growth of a poet's mind," as Wordsworth put it in The Prelude. In a poetical prose both probing and incantatory, McLane has written a radical book of experimental criticism. Susan Sontag called for an "erotics of interpretation": this is it. Part Bildung, part dithyramb, part exegesis, My Poets extends an implicit invitation to you, dear reader, to consider who your "my poets," or "my novelists," or "my filmmakers," or "my pop stars," might be.
Author |
: Robert Pinsky |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2019-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781324001799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1324001798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling by : Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky, “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), gathers poems that cope with the most extreme human emotions. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. Poems get under our skin; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Book of Poetry for Hard Times, former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky curates poems that explore the expanses of human emotion across centuries, from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood. Each poem reveals something new about our most profound and universal experiences; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. “For anyone who knows these human feelings—and almost everyone does—this book will become an essential companion.”—Eavan Boland
Author |
: Jane Hirshfield |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1998-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780060929480 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0060929480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nine Gates by : Jane Hirshfield
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, Nine Gates illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art. A person who enters completely into the experience of a poem is initiated into a deeper intimacy with life. Delving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. Nine Gates is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world -- alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably. In part a primer for the general reader, Nine Gates is also a manual for the working writer, with each "gate" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. Above all, Nine Gates is an insightful guide to the way the mind of poetry awakens our fundamental consciousness of what can be known when a person is most fully alive.
Author |
: Keith J. Holyoak |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2019-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262039222 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262039222 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spider's Thread by : Keith J. Holyoak
An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of thinkers from the humanities—poets, philosophers, and critics—and from the sciences—psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, and computer scientists. He begins each chapter with a poem—by poets including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Du Fu, William Butler Yeats, and Pablo Neruda—and then widens the discussion to broader notions of metaphor and mind. Holyoak uses Whitman's poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” to illustrate the process of interpreting a poem, and explains the relevance of two psychological mechanisms, analogy and conceptual combination, to metaphor. He outlines ideas first sketched by Coleridge—who called poetry “the best words in their best order”—and links them to modern research on the interplay between cognition and emotion, controlled and associative thinking, memory and creativity. Building on Emily Dickinson's declaration “the brain is wider than the sky,” Holyoak suggests that the control and default networks in the brain may combine to support creativity. He also considers, among other things, the interplay of sound and meaning in poetry; symbolism in the work of Yeats, Jung, and others; indirect communication in poems; the mixture of active and passive processes in creativity; and whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity. Guided by Holyoak, we can begin to trace the outlines of creativity through the mechanisms of metaphor.