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The Invention of Influence

Peter Cole

出版	New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2014
主題	Literary Criticism / GeneralPoetry / GeneralPoetry / American / General
ISBN	08112217259780811221726
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CxTzmQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Peter Cole has been called "an inspired writer" (The Nation) and "one of the handful of authentic poets of his own American generation" (Harold Bloom). In this, his fourth book of poems, he presents a ramifying vision of human linkage. At the heart of the collection stands the stunning title poem, which brings us into the world of Victor Tausk, a maverick and tragic early disciple of Freud who wrote about one of his patients' mental inventions -- an "influence machine" that controlled his thoughts. In Cole's symphonic poem, this machine becomes a haunting image for the ways in which tradition and the language of others shape so much of what we think and say. The shorter poems in this rich and surprising volume treat the dynamics of coupling, the curiously varied nature of perfection, the delights of the senses, the perils of poetic vocation, and more.