Immanent distance : poetry and the metaphysics of the near at hand /
In these essays, Bruce Bond interrogates the commonly accepted notion that all poetry since modernism tends toward one of two traditions, that of a more architectural sensibility with its resistance to metaphysics, and that of a latter-day Romantic sensibility, which finds its authority in a metaphy...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The glass island
- I. The hunger for being
- The postmodern split : poetry, theory, and the metaphysics that would not die
- Authenticity and the myth of the lyric subject : the summons of Olson's legacy
- Metaphysics of the image in Charles Wright's "Homage to Paul Cézanne"
- II. The becoming of form
- Zeno's arrow, Cupid's bow : structure, process, and poetry's dream of the unified field
- Form's future : negative capability, apprenticeship, and the poetic line
- The wind in the fire : sentimentality and the movement of the mind
- III. Eros and its discontents
- The double fall of Madame I
- An abundance of lack : the fullness of desire in the poetry of Robert Hass
- Mercury's passage : poetry, fracture, and the talking cure
- IV. The listening word
- The limits of metaphor
- The genius of the medium : identity and alterity in poetic practice
- Empathy and the poetic imagination
- V. Postscript
- The age of technique.