{"product_id":"9780889223882","title":"Recovery of the Public World: Essays on Poetics in Honour of Robin Blaser","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Recovery of the Public World\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of texts and talks which address the work of poet Robin Blaser and the field inhabited by his work. It is a field in which the private and the public are grounded in a poetic thinking that operates within the problematics of companionship and community. The companions are “you, dear reader,” the ghosts of Pindar, Duncan, Dante, Sappho, Spicer, Nerval, Mallarmé … and the inquiring voices, echoing throughout this book, of Arendt, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Lacan, Deleuze, Agamben, Serres, De Certeau, Nancy, Ronell.… The community is an “image-nation,” a community in which, in Robin Blaser’s words, “the struggle in philosophy and poetry [is] central to our private and public lives.” Speaking, writing, working out a poetics like Blaser’s, which is both furious and intelligent, compassionate and amiable, as well as active in its imagination, offers to many of us a means of resistance to that “conditionless condition” which characterizes the common predicament of the mass societies in which we live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Recovery of the Public World\u003c\/i\u003e provides an introduction to that work which, until very recently, was the least well-known major body of work of all the poets who were included in Donald Allen’s ground-breaking anthology, \u003ci\u003eThe New American Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. That Robin Blaser is one of the great North American poets is a fact which many of his peers have known for some time; the availability of \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Forest\u003c\/i\u003e in print and the publication of the essays from three generations of poets from Canada, the U.S.A., the U.K. and New Zealand in \u003ci\u003eThe Recovery of the Public World\u003c\/i\u003e now ensure that a wider reading public will know it as well.","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022884552944,"sku":"9780889223882","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889223882_p0.jpg?v=1763853287","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889223882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}