Poetry and Islands: Materiality and the Creative Imagination

by Rajeev S. Patke

Book Overview

In all cultures and times, the poetic imagination has fed on the natural attributes of islands. An island is either a destination, or a home, or a place of exile and imprisonment, or simply a place to sojourn. It is an ideal vehicle for journeys treated as allegories, or for acts of finding that turn into acts of losing, or the reverse transformation. An island is not a continent; yet it can be an archipelago. An island is both a place in itself and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178348411X
• ISBN13: 9781783484119
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"