{"product_id":"earth-recitals-essays-on-image-vision-paperback","title":"Earth Recitals: Essays on Image \u0026 Vision - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelissa Kwasny\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssays on the life of the image and its role in visionary experience through a range of cultural practices focus primarily on poetry but include painting, sculpture, and song. \u003ci\u003eEarth Recitals\u003c\/i\u003e engages with the image in the history of poetry, as well as with contemporary poets, philosophers, archaeologists, artists, and cultural critics. It outlines the major tenets of Imagism and sketches the transformations the image underwent in modernism and surrealism. The book's central preoccupation is with questions of interiority and exteriority--the image's appearance as being and its subsequent reappearance in the mind--and introduces the writings of the renowned Sufi scholar Henry Corbin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Kwasny \u003c\/b\u003ehas published four collections of poems, two novels, and the anthology \u003ci\u003eToward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also, with M. L. Smoker, editor of \u003ci\u003eI Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives near Jefferson City, Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67972782260531,"sku":"9780899241289","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2v0q4pdrVY9780899241289.webp?v=1794433909","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/earth-recitals-essays-on-image-vision-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}