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Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry (Hardcover)
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Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry (Hardcover)
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In the first monograph on W. S. Merwin to appear since his death in
2019, Feng Dong focuses on the dialectical movement of desire and
infinity that ensouls the poet's entire oeuvre. His analysis
foregrounds what Merwin calls "the other side of despair," the
opposite of humans' articulated personal and social agonies. Feng
finds these presences in Merwin's evocations of what lingers on the
edge of constantly updated socio-symbolic frameworks: surreal
encounters, spiritual ecstasies, and abyssal freedoms. By examining
Merwin's lifelong engagement with psychic fantasies, anonymous
holiness, entities both natural and supernatural, and ghostly
ancestors, Feng uncovers a precarious relation with the
unarticulated, unrealized side of existence. Drawing on theories
from Lacan, Zizek, Levinas, and Heidegger, Desire and Infinity in
W. S. Merwin's Poetry reads a metaphysical possibility into the
poet's work at the intersection between contemporary poetics,
philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
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