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Rarity and the Poetic

The Gesture of Small Flowers

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  • © 2016

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  1. Harold Schweizer
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Rarity of Shade

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 10-20

  4. The Rarity of the Gesture of Small Flowers

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 21-29

  5. The Rarity of Attention

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 30-37

  6. The Rarity of Dying

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 38-44

  7. The Density of Suffering

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 45-53

  8. The Rarity of One’s Own Death

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 54-61

  9. The Rarity of Things

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 62-68

  10. The Rarity of Accidents

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 69-77

  11. The Rarity of the Beautiful

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 78-88

  12. Coda

    • Harold Schweizer
    Pages 89-90

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 91-98
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About this book

Rarity is a quality by which things flowers, leaves, light, sound fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. Each of the nine chapters in this book pursues such intimations of rarity in poetic ideas, images, and silences.

About the author

Harold Schweizer is Professor of English at Bucknell University, USA, where he teaches literary theory and poetry. He has co-edited the 12 volume series The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory; he is the author of Suffering and the Remedy of Art, On Waiting, and a volume of poetry, The Book of Stones and Angels.

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