A Way of Seeing: Perception, Imagination, and PoetrySteinerBooks, 2003 - 167 pagina's We usually think of imagination as a fanciful, whimsical faculty that has little to do with reality and truth. This beautifully written book by the Australian poet John Allison shows how ordinary imagination can be intensified to become an organ of cognition--a path of development to real knowing. Allison shows how poetry--poetic knowing and seeing--can reveal aspects of the world invisible to science. Three lucid chapters describe the path to true imagination, where attention is the key. First we must practice it, then we must become aware of the processes involved in it. Learning to experience "poise," we must come to terms with the shadow--or all that says "No" in us. The combination of attention, equanimity, and assent opens the world in a new way. Allison then examines how poets have actually developed and practiced the kind of "deep seeing" that "image work" involves. For this he draws on William Shakespeare, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novalis, John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Octavio Paz. The author concludes with a sequence of his own poems that exemplify the philosophy and practice he has developed. Contents:
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... thoughts in relation to oth- ers , and in particular I have attempted to assay words in the service of my experiences . Second , as a lyric poet I am accus- tomed to writing poem - sequences , in which the relationship between the poems ...
... thought we have to learn simul- taneous detachment and attachment , and tried to explain 3 what I meant . On my way home I thought Attending to Attentiveness.
... thought further about it . Later I went to my dictionary . I would now ascribe what I wanted to mean that evening to the word attentiveness . I am convinced that attentiveness has just one fundamental prerequisite : to be present . Only ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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Developing Imagination | 18 |
Owning the Shadow | 27 |
Getting It | 37 |
Freeing Imagination from Fancy | 47 |
Negative Capability | 58 |
Deep Seeing | 68 |
Instress and Inscape | 79 |
Another Way of Seeing Things | 107 |
Living in the World | 119 |
Connections | 127 |
Three Portals of the Imagination | 133 |
Crossings | 140 |
This | 150 |
Seeing Things II | 161 |
Heartwork | 90 |