Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand

by Bruce Bond

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472052837
• ISBN13: 9780472052837
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"