Immanent distance : poetry and the metaphysics of the near at hand / Bruce Bond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bond, Bruce, 1954-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Poets on poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Essays.

Poetry--History and criticism--21st century.

Poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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 metaphysics authenticated by the individual imagination. Poetry, whether self-consciously or not, has always thrived on the paradox of the distant in the immanent and the other in the self; as such, it is driven by both a metaphysical hunger and a resistance to metaphysical certainty. Hidden resources of being animate the language of the near, just as near things beckon from an elusive and inarticulate distance. Bond revalidates the role of poetry and, more broadly, of the poetic imagination as both models for and embodiments of a transfigurative process, an imperfectly mimetic yet ontological engendering of consciousness at the limits of a language that must--if cognizant of its psychological, ethical, and epistemological summons--honor that which lies beyond it."--Page 4 of cover.

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 Cezanne"

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.

Notes:

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472121366

0472121367

9780472072835

0472072838

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.8150518

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