The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics 9780228003052
A fresh look at poetry's vital role in exploring, and extending, our sense of what it means to be human. A fresh
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English Pages [199] Year 2020
Table of contents :
Cover
The Poetic Imperative
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 “The Bees Come Booming”: A Poetics of “As If”
2 “One Kind of Knowledge”: Poetry and Belief
3 “Un coup de dés”: The Secret History of Poetry – and Its Imaginary Future
4 The Vanishing Point of Meaning: “Making Sense” of the Fugal Past
5 “To Undo the Creature”: The Paradox of Writing
6 Praxis and Poiesis: The Subversive Structures of Poetry and Human Being
7 The Future Library and the Xenotext: Poetry and the Futurism of the Present
Notes
References
Index
