Poetry and Mindfulness

Offers a fresh argument in defense of the humanities Highlights similarities between mindfulness and the study of poetry

Analyzes traditional and experimental poetry as well as scientific studies of mindfulness

Offers a fresh argument in defense of the humanities Highlights similarities between mindfulness and the study of poetry Analyzes traditional and experimental poetry as well as scientific studies of mindfulness

Autorentext

Bryan Walpert is Associate Professor in the School of English & Media Studies at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. His publications include the poetry collections Etymology, A History of Glass, and Native Bird; the fiction collection Ephraim's Eyes, and the monograph Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry.

Zusammenfassung
Offers a fresh argument in defense of the humanities Highlights similarities between mindfulness and the study of poetry

Analyzes traditional and experimental poetry as well as scientific studies of mindfulness

Inhalt
.-1 Introduction.-2 Mindfulness, Mindlessness, Poetry.-3 The First Fruit: Interruption to a Journey.-4 Nature, Defamiliarization, Ambiguity.-5 The Second Fruit: No-Self.-6 The Third Fruit: Poetry, Ecology, Contingency.