Interrogating the much-cherished concept of "poetic thinking," this
book focusses on what interview and draft materials reveal of how
poets think while in the act of writing. With findings from the
cognitive tradition, this book uses performance theory and
philosophy to examine this brief, creative window of conscious
attention. Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought draws
out the implications of this radically curtailed view of
consciousness on the poems and other texts we compose. Henrich von
Kleist's assertion that "it is not we, but a certain condition of
ours which knows" emerges as central to this analysis of the
thinking we perform in the very moments of composition. Employing
an extensive archive of interview materials with major Anglophone
poets, discussing how they think in the moments of composition, the
book also provides a lucid account of the links between poetic
composition and live performative thinking in the context of the
early (pre)textual history of the Ancient Greeks. A
transdisciplinary study at the crossroads of philosophy, cognitive
psychology, literary studies and linguistics, this book
reconceptualizes the wellsprings of new thought in poems and
advances our understanding of thinking's complex but vital link to
the moment of utterance.
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