By David St. John
A haunting and creative e-book size series of poems from the celebrated writer of Study for the World's Body.
The Face is either fiercely lyrical and in detail conversational. Coming to phrases with the failure of an excellent love, the speaker descends into his personal darkish evening of the soul. listed here are poems that discover the drama of the shattered self in various voices, calling on reminiscence to talk and mind's eye to make good looks from the shards. Slowly, the speaker reassembles his existence and back reveals religion in himself and the realm. those poems display a swirling cinematic poetry of visionary scope; meditative and confessional in a few moments, ironic and playful in others.
Deeply passionate and uncooked in its candour, The Face will be for this new release of poets what Lowell's Life stories and Ashbery's Self–Portrait in a Convex Mirror were.
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Sample text
We can never be sure of the degree to which we are the generous transcribers of fact, and of how far we remain the architects of personally and socially determined patterns. The awareness of the unconscious has only compounded this problem, for its very theorisation presupposes a reservoir of inarticulable determining influences within and around the conscious mind; the 'will' or the ethical faculty can thus only tentatively define one 'self' out of an indefinite number of possibles. We do not possess the fixed self-availability necessary to construct a past from a stable 'moment' in our own time, so that the prospect of an articulable mediation between then and now becomes even more remote.
Michel Foucault, in The Birth of KINDLING THE TORCH 31 the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, has pointed out (p. 65) ... the two great mythical experiences on which the philosophy of the eighteenth century had wished to base its beginning: the foreign spectator in an unknown country, and the man born blind restored to light. I would agree with this. The metaphor of the traveller, informed by numerous popular accounts of exotic travels and anthropological oddities, is indeed prominent in philosophical discourse, often in the cause of demonstrating cultural relativity, and the Molyneux problem was without doubt the central riddle in the discussions of the theory of vision.
29 From this point, the reference points become bewilderingly manifold. What we have seen at work in the 'spontaneous' business of writing poetry can be situated, I shall try to suggest, in the wider context of the models of knowledge production and possibility which characterise the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To say this is immediately to involve oneself in difficult methodological questions which cannot be sidestepped, yet which seem to preclude in their very formulation any opportunity we might have for solving them.