A sun within a sun : the power and elegance of poetry /
"A Sun within a Sun explores the notions of lightness and weight, discipline and indulgence, freedom and loss of will that are inherent in the poetic enterprise. It poses that lightness, discipline, freedom, and risk are essential for an approach to the enigma of beauty through an elegant shapi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, PA :
University of Pittsburgh,
©2006.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | "A Sun within a Sun explores the notions of lightness and weight, discipline and indulgence, freedom and loss of will that are inherent in the poetic enterprise. It poses that lightness, discipline, freedom, and risk are essential for an approach to the enigma of beauty through an elegant shaping of form that holds true not only in poetry but also in pure science and even fashion. Poetry is a language within a language, a heightened and intense awareness of what words mean and what they can do, at its best creating an intensity of a sun within a sun. The poet and reader of poetry must take the risk Icarus took of approaching the sun, for without the risk there is no fulfillment."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822959717 0822959712 0822973294 9780822973294 |