The Elephant of Silence: Essays on Poetics and Cinema - Couverture souple

Barger, John Wall

 
9780807181577: The Elephant of Silence: Essays on Poetics and Cinema
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0807181579 ISBN 13 : 9780807181577
Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2024

Synopsis

"A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it," contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind. By considering poetry, film, and the intersections among aesthetic moments and our lives, Barger illuminates the foundations of poetic craft but also probes how to be alive, creative, and open in the world. Each piece investigates unanswerable questions and indefinable words: Lorca's duende, Nabokov's poshlost, Bashō's underglimmer, Huizinga's ludic, Tarkovsky's Zona. Influenced by poets such as Glück and Ruefle, and filmmakers such as Kubrick and Lynch, Barger writes--first always sharing his own personal life stories--on the nature of perception, experience, and the human mind. With lyric eloquence and disarming candor, The Elephant of Silence tackles how to live an imaginative life, how to gravitate toward the silence from which art comes, and how the mystical is also the everyday.

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À propos de l'auteur

John Wall Barger is the author of six collections of poems, including Smog Mother. An editor for Frontenac House, he lives in Vermont and lectures in the writing program at Dartmouth College.

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Éditeur
Louisiana State University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807181579
ISBN 13 
9780807181577
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
206
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