Plurality and the Poetics of Self
Plurality and the Poetics of Self investigates the words “I” and “self” as suggestive of eight territories of meaning. Via poetry’s lens into language and its limits, Bruce Bond explores the notion of self as identity, volitional agent, ego, existential m
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Bruce Bond
Plurality and the Poetics of Self “Bruce Bond’s Plurality and the Poetics of Self works to mend the disjointed harmony of contemporary poetics’ relation to self, a relation that errs in assuming experience authorizes self-expression past skeptical scrutiny, and one that errs in assuming the self is but a construction, a mere made-thing. But the true harmony of self is a complicated music, one Bond teaches us to hear in all its contraries: desires and drives, braidings and frayings, fractures and fragments, the underdone and overwrought whole. Delving into poetry across spans of time, into philosophy, theology, psychology, metaphysics, and myth, Bond demonstrates not only generous learning, but gives us a rarer gift, that generosity inside of learning that hopes to return us to ourselves. The self is no logos, but is a logoi—not a logic, but many logics. The gift here is to allow us our own complexity, and to suggest a poem’s difficulty might make us each more capable of understanding and expressing our own, that Gordian knot we tangle more each day, lost as we are in the labyrinth of our single syllable whenever we, as daily we all do, say ‘I.’” —Dan Beachy-Quick, Professor of English, Colorado State University, USA, and author of Of Silence and Song (2017)
Bruce Bond
Plurality and the Poetics of Self
Bruce Bond University of North Texas Denton, TX, USA
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