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(2019) Phenomenology and the late twentieth-century american long poem, Dordrecht, Springer.
In this chapter, Carbery offers an account of the composition of Robin Blaser's extended poetic project Image-Nations (1975–2007). Blaser's poetics is informed not only by a serious engagement with the intersubjective phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty but also his reliance on the poetics' of his close friends, and in particular Jack Spicer's theory of "The Practice of Outside'. In articulating this, Carbery emphasises "companionability', a term which brings together the social and the phenomenological in Blaser's work. Through reading Blaser alongside Merleau-Ponty, Carbery consolidates recent critical work on Blaser whilst presenting his own cohesive argument that Blaser's work relies on a phenomenological understanding of intersubjectivity, and in particular Merleau-Ponty's notion of the "Chiasm'.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05002-3_3
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Carbery, M. (2019). A huge companionship: Robin Nlaser's "image-nation", in Phenomenology and the late twentieth-century american long poem, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 65-93.
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