Rarity and the poetic
Subtitle: the gesture of small flowers
By: Harold Schweizer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137589286
Subjects: History and criticism; Modern Poetry; Rarity in literature
Description: "Rarity is a quality by which things-flowers, leaves, light, sound-fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed.  In this book, the author examines the imaginary or poetic dimensions of rarity. It comes about in the hushed spaces between stanzas, in the pauses between words and lines, in speechlessness. A flower, a silence in a room, a mournfully muttered 'oh,' thorns and dark seeds, even rugs and tables, a hummingbird, the papery gown of a brother dying, all have rarity. Rilke's phrase 'the gesture of small flowers when they open in the morning' serves as an exemplary image of material and mental rarity. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and  index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  Introduction; title: 1. The Rarity of Shade; title: 2. The Rarity of the Gesture of Small Flowers; title: 3. Rarity of Attention; title: 4. The Rarity of Dying; title: 5. The Density of Suffering; title: 6. The Rarity of One's Own Death; title: 7. The Rarity of Things; title: 8. The Rarity of Accidents; title: 9. The Rarity of the Beautiful; title: Coda.