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The Elephant of Silence: Essays on Poetics and Cinema Barger, John Wall
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- ISBN
- 9780807181577
- Book Title
- Elephant of Silence : Essays on Poetics and Cinema
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Poetry, Film / History & Criticism, Essays
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 9.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 206 Pages
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?A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it,? contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind. By considering poetry, film, and the intersections among aesthetic moments and our lives, Barger illuminates the foundations of poetic craft but also probes how to be alive, creative, and open in the world. Each piece investigates unanswerable questions and indefinable words: Lorca?s duende, Nabokov?s poshlost, Bash??s underglimmer, Huizinga?s ludic, Tarkovsky?s Zona. Influenced by poets such as Glück and Ruefle, and filmmakers such as Kubrick and Lynch, Barger writes?first always sharing his own personal life stories?on the nature of perception, experience, and the human mind. With lyric eloquence and disarming candor, The Elephant of Silence tackles how to live an imaginative life, how to gravitate toward the silence from which art comes, and how the mystical is also the everyday.
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Publisher
LSU Press
ISBN-10
0807181579
ISBN-13
9780807181577
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21064289541
Product Key Features
Book Title
Elephant of Silence : Essays on Poetics and Cinema
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry, Film / History & Criticism, Essays
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
206 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pr9199.4.B365a6 2024
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Barger's essays are all, in some way, about the creative process itself and the audience's role as a vital participant in that process. An author has defined a set of parameters, yet it is up to us, the viewer, to bring our own lived experience to bear it out. Barger navigates this terrain with the ease and imagination of an expert tour guide, a 'Stalker'--in the spirit of Tarkovsky--who understands our own pivotal involvement in helping to create this world we inhabit., If you can't go to the movies with Barger, do the next best thing and enjoy these sensitive, playful essays on what he's watched, read, and observed, with a poet's blend of thought and feeling., What a pleasure to follow poet John Wall Barger's singular, brilliant, unpretentious, generous mind, as he writes in an utterly natural and precise way about subjects notoriously difficult to discuss: poetry, film, writing, marriage, even silence.
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