The Poem attempts to answer several questions: whatis a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poemswork? Part polemic, part technical treatise and part meditation,The Poem is an ambitious contemporary ars poetica.
Paterson looks at the writing, transmission and reading of poetry with wit and scholarly flair, drawing together literary analysis, linguistics, metaphysics, psychology and cogniti.
The Poem attempts to answer several questions: whatis a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poemswork? Part polemic, part technical treatise and part meditation,The Poem is an ambitious contemporary ars poetica
