The Invention of Influence
Peter Cole has been called an inspired writer (The Nation) and one of the handful of authentic poets of his own American generation (Harold Bloom). In this, his fourth book of poems, he presents a ramifying vision of human linkage. At the heart of the collection stands the stunning title poem, which brings us into the world of Victor Tausk, a maverick and tragic early disciple of Freud who wrote about one of his patients' mental inventions - an influence machine that controlled his thoughts. In Cole's symphonic poem, this machine becomes a haunting image for the ways in which tradition and the language of others shape so much of what we think…
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Weitere Autoren: Bloom, Harold (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2172-6
- EAN: 9780811221726
- Produktnummer: 19432112
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.7 cm 238 g
- Gewicht: 238
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Peter Cole's previous books of poems include Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions). Among his volumes of translation are The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492. Cole, who divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007.
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