Poetry and Mindfulness
Interruption to a Journey
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
Published:16th Nov '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and education. The book argues that the benefits and insights mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of poetry. These benefits include a focus on the present, the ability to see through scripts and habits, a rethinking of subjectivity, and the development of ecological or systems thinking. Bryan Walpert employs close readings of traditional and experimental poetry and draws on scientific studies of the effects of mindfulness or reading literature on the brain. It argues the skills that poetry, like mindfulness, cultivates are useful beyond the page or classroom and ultimately are necessary to engage with such global issues as the environmental crisis.
“what Walpert does so beautifully in this book is use the art to save the art. … Poetry and Mindfulness is primarily aimed at those who teach literary studies and creative writing ‘who find themselves pressed by students, colleagues, or those beyond the academy to explain the relevance of poetry’. It will also interest poets, and anyone interested in current research about the intersections between literature and wellbeing, or mindfulness and wellbeing. It’s worth interrupting your journey to read this book.” (Sue Wootton, Corpus, corpus.nz, November 19, 2018)
ISBN: 9783319686806
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 2888g
125 pages
1st ed. 2017