The Poetics of SpaceThe classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard." -from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe 6473-4 / $15.00tx / paperback |
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User Review - kencf0618 - LibraryThingI bought this at the James Castle House in Boise, Idaho, inasmuch as Deleuze and hourglasses were both mentioned (and I bought an hourglass, too). A fabulous, sustained reverie for the poet in us all. Read full review
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User Review - Frank_Prem - LibraryThingThis and the other Bachelard translations inspired my best work (poetry) in a series that took me through in excess of 700 poems. I think his ability to thoughtfully examine space, from a perspective ... Read full review
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| Title | The Poetics of Space Volume 330 of Beacon paperbacks |
| Author | Gaston Bachelard |
| Translated by | M. Jolas |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Beacon Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0807064734, 9780807064733 |
| Length | 241 pages |
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