The Poet's Freedom
Susan Stewart
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Add to basketSold by Pearls Books n Music, Cairns city, QLD, Australia
AbeBooks Seller since 27 February 2026
Condition: Used - Good
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Add to basketWhy do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly thepoet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders thesequestions in 'The Poet's Freedom'. Through a series of evocative essays, she not only argues that freedom is necessary tomaking and is itself something made, but also shows how artists give rules to their practices and model a self-determinationthat might serve in other spheres of work. Stewart traces the ideas of freedom and making through insightful readings of anarray of Western philosophers and poets - Plato, Homer, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, Dante, and Coleridge are among her keysources. She begins by considering the theme of making in the 'Hebrew Scriptures', examining their account of a god whocreates the world and leaves humans free to rearrange and re-form the materials of nature. She goes on to follow the force ofmoods, sounds, rhythms, images, metrical rules, rhetorical traditions, the traps of the passions, and the nature of languagein the cycle of making and remaking.Throughout the book she weaves the insight that the freedom to reverse any act of artistic making is as essential as thefreedom to create. A book about the pleasures of making and thinking as means of life, 'The Poet's Freedom' explores andcelebrates the freedom of artists who, working under finite conditions, make considered choices and shape surprisingconsequences. This engaging and beautifully written notebook on making will attract anyone interested in the creation of artand literature.
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