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Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand
Bruce Bond
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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.
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Title
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Introduction: The Glass Island
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I. The Hunger for Being
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The Postmodern Split: Poetry, Theory, and the Metaphysics That Would Not Die
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Authenticity and the Myth of the Lyric Subject: The Summons of Olson’s Legacy
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Metaphysics of the Image in Charles Wright’s “Homage to Paul Cézanne”
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II. The Becoming of Form
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Zeno’s Arrow, Cupid’s Bow: Structure, Process, and Poetry’s Dream of the Unified Field
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Form’s Future: Negative Capability, Apprenticeship, and the Poetic Line
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The Wind in the Fire: Sentimentality and the Movement of the Mind
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III. Eros and Its Discontents
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The Double Fall of Madame I
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An Abundance of Lack: The Fullness of Desire in the Poetry of Robert Hass
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Mercury’s Passage: Poetry, Fracture, and the Talking Cure132
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IV. The Listening Word
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The Limits of Metaphor
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The Genius of the Medium: Identity and Alterity in Poetic Practice
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Empathy and the Poetic Imagination177
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V. Postscript
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The Age of Technique
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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