Saturday, June 09, 2012

Essay of the Day, 6/9/2012: "The Eye as Inspiration in Modern Poetry"

“The Eye as Inspiration in Modern Poetry.” New Orleans Review 8 (1981): 10-13.

Like "Photo-graphy-sythesis," this essay about the visionary nature of such modern poets as Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and Wendell Berry was written "under the influence" (I don't mean that literally) of LSD and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

It should also be considered another of my "organ inferiority" piece.

Now available in The Ventriloquist.


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