The Elephant of Silence
Essays on Poetics and Cinema
John Wall Barger
- 205 pages
- English
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The Elephant of Silence
Essays on Poetics and Cinema
John Wall Barger
Ă propos de ce livre
"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 GlĂŒck and Ruefle, and filmmakers such as Kubrick and Lynch, Barger writesâfirst always sharing his own personal life storiesâon 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.