false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175537303m/525115.jpg 525115 2 <div>What is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making experience and suffering understood by others? With <i>Poetry and the Fate of the Senses</i>, Susan Stewart traces the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in our culture. The task of poetry, she tells us, is to counter the loneliness of the mind, or to help it glean, out of the darkness of solitude, the outline of others. Poetry, she contends, makes tangible, visible, and audible the contours of our shared humanity. It sustains and transforms the threshold between individual and social existence.<br><br>Herself an acclaimed poet, Stewart not only brings the intelligence of a critic to the question of poetry, but the insight of a practitioner as well. Her new study draws on reading from the ancient Greeks to the postmoderns to explain how poetry creates meanings between persons. <i>Poetry and the Fate of the Senses</i> includes close discussions of poems by Stevens, Hopkins, Keats, Hardy, Bishop, and Traherne, of the sense of vertigo in Baroque and Romantic works, and of the rich tradition of nocturnes in visual, musical, and verbal art. Ultimately, Stewart explores the pivotal role of poetry in contemporary culture. She argues that poetry can counter the denigration of the senses and can expand our imagination of the range of human expression.<br><br><i>Poetry and the Fate of the Senses</i> won the 2004 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. It also won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2002 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism.</div> 2109057 2002 Poetry and the Fate of the Senses total:32|5:11|4:12|3:7|2:2|1:0| 32 128 72 4 3 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 12:33:49 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 12:52:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Mar 28 15:50:57 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 19:06:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Feb 23 10:57:06 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 10:57:41 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Feb 23 06:17:09 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 06:28:42 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 22:12:24 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 09:05:11 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 09:05:15 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 09:38:34 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 18 16:41:29 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 07:14:32 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 07:14:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 10:58:25 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 16:31:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 01 18:38:46 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 18:38:46 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Apr 07 19:33:19 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 19:33:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 01 10:43:03 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 10:43:11 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 17:13:01 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 17:14:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 27 11:25:19 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 11:25:19 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Feb 07 16:39:08 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 16:39:08 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Wed Jan 28 09:59:16 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 09:59:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 19 10:04:19 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 10:04:19 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 11:17:05 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 11:17:05 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Dec 09 09:16:31 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 09:16:35 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Dec 09 02:49:33 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 02:49:33 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Dec 08 19:37:43 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:37:43 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=525115