Poetry and Mindfulness
Subtitle: Interruption to a Journey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 03, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9783319686806
Description: "At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education. The book argues that the benefits and insights mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of poetry. These benefits include a focus on the present, the ability to see through scripts and habits, a rethinking of subjectivity, and the development of ecological or systems thinking. Bryan Walpert employs close readings of traditional and experimental poetry and draws on scientific studies of the effects of mindfulness or reading literature on the brain. It argues the skills that poetry, like mindfulness, cultivates are useful beyond the page or classroom and ultimately are necessary to engage with such global issues as the environmental crisis."--Provided by publisher
Notes: Source title: Poetry and Mindfulness: Interruption to a Journey