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Author:

Bond, Bruce, 1954- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

217 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Poetry--History and criticism--21st century.
Essays.
American poetry--21st century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

V. Postscript -- I. The hunger for being -- The age of technique. 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 C©♭zanne" -- 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.

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.

Series:

Poets on poetry

ISBN:

0472052837
9780472052837
0472072838
9780472072835

OCLC:

(OCoLC)915496197

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)