Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise - Hirshfield Jane
Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise - Hirshfield Jane In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and…
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Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise - Hirshfield Jane
In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. Jane Hirshfield examines the roles of hiddenness, uncertainty and surprise as they appear in poetry and other works of literature, in the life and psyche of the writer, and in the broader life of the culture as a whole. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity to learn what the poets themselves think about their own subject.
There is no paradise, no place of true completion, that does not include within its walls the unknown. Poetry and Hiddenness: Thoreau's Hound Explorations of Hiddenness go back to the beginning of literature. In this lecture, Hirshfield explores the centrality and necessity of hiddenness in our