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Thinking, Critique, Mindfulness: Further Thoughts on What Poets Do.
- Source :
- New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing; 2014, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p377-386, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- What is the thinking that poetry does? In his essay, ‘The origin of the work of art’, Martin Heidegger proposes a distinction between two poetic modes –DichtungandPoesie –in which the former is an extra-linguistic framing essence which makesPoesie, the manifestation of poetry in language, possible. In another essay, ‘What are poets for?’ the philosopher claims technology creates a fissure of forgetfulness between selves and contexts, and that ‘To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods’. This ficto-critical paper – written after the experience of a week's vipassanā meditation – reads Robert Hass' poem ‘Meditation at Lagunitas’ as a text that aims for chthonic reconnection between objects, experience, and language. In speculating that processes of active and non-linguistic practice are generativeandhumanising, this paper re-reads meditation as a mode of gnostic self-extinction (after Eliot) which can enable access to intuitive zones (Heidegger'sDichtung), and which situates ‘an understanding of reality that transcends ordinary comprehension’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POETRY (Literary form)
POETS
ARTISTS
MIND & body
CRITICAL thinking
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14790726
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 98697373
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2014.904892