{"product_id":"poetry-and-the-fate-of-the-senses-9780226774145","title":"Poetry and the Fate of the Senses","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 Poetry and the Fate of the Senses  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.  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. Poetry and the Fate of the Senses 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.  Poetry and the Fate of the Senses 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 Societys 2002 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666350235701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226774147","price":71.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226774145.jpg?v=1782429269","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/poetry-and-the-fate-of-the-senses-9780226774145","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}