L' angelo necessario. Saggi sulla realtà e l'immaginazione
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Nel settembre 1949 Wallace Stevens acquistò una natura morta di Pierre Tal-Coat e se ne innamorò al punto da darvi un titolo di sua invenzione: "Angelo circondato da paesani". Pochi giorni dopo da quel titolo nacque una poesia, in celebrazione di un angelo invisibile che annuncia ai pastori non una nascita divina ma una rivelazione terrestre: «sono l'angelo necessario della terra,/ perché la terra nel mio sguardo rivedete,/ libera dalla sua dura e ostinata maniera umana». È l'angelo della realtà che si limita a indicare la via del mondo, ma è necessario, perché il mondo rivive solo in quello sguardo. Lo sguardo della poesia. Questo volume raccoglie le riflessioni di poetica di Wallace Stevens, dirigente di una grossa compagnia di assicurazioni e insieme interprete tra i più fecondi e imprevedibili che la modernità abbia avuto. Flemmatico ed elegante uomo di legge, Stevens non perde mai la calma ed evita i toni enfatici, spesso ha battute di umorismo particolarissimo. Eppure insegna che l'angelo è necessario, scrive cioè una disincantata apologia della poesia per i nostri tempi. Da poeta, nei saggi evoca immagini. Parla della metafora, dell'immaginazione, dei rapporti tra poesia e pittura, in modo originale per stile e contenuto, riprendendo la questione dalla base, con semplicità e raffinatezza.
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- Pagine: 196
- Data di uscita: 30-10-2018
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A rare and thought-proving book on language, prose, poetry, art, painting, and creativity. “We live in the mind,” Stevens says in speaking about transmitting your imagination. There are moral and philosophical essays here and even the act of dying is examined. I especially liked his chapter on Imagi Leggi tutto
Loads of filling. Don't remember it being "necessary" at all. Greatest moment (I quote by memory): "Those ones who put all their soul into their poetry cannot bear sugarcoated poetry made by poseurs as a hobby."
For Wallace Stevens, the real and the abstract were interwoven in ways that begged his decoding, which he turned into poems that stretched our imaginations. We are blessed that he tries to describe his gift in the essays of this book. He attempts to define poetry, philosophy, reality, and imagination Leggi tutto
"The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words" is the 1st essay. Stevens goes back to Plato and the Phaedrus where a charioteer must deal with two horses: one that can fly and one that can't. Stevens compares them to reality and the imagination. I consider Mr. Stevens to be a poet who writes about imagina Leggi tutto
I read the first essay of this book about a year ago and was blown away. The writing style was convoluted and logically frayed... but the punchline was good enough that I am still trying to figure out how best to ink it on my skin. So, as I began to prepare for my final thesis, I knew full well that Leggi tutto
A little angel said to me, "I'm an angel and you were once too," and he was well pleased. All Stevens' work viewed in light of his baptism at 75, right before his death, shows its truth. Then angel showed me what that meant. This music appeared in the March elimae http://www.elimae.com/2010/03/RevSt Leggi tutto
Curious, inspiring essays on perception and art - the question of the importance of imagination and its effect on reality. It follows in the veins of the philosophical perception, how everyone's experience and person defines things differently. Fascinating that Stevens's prose is much more baroque an Leggi tutto
Some good essays in here...worth reading...but not the absolute necessary angel the title leads you to believe.
This is an intelligent, furious book, and its intensely cerebral nature left me squirming, but I found a lot of the philosophy too dense and abstract to actively "enjoy" as one normally "enjoys" a book. It is very rewarding, but it is also a very demanding collection of essays, and requires a certai Leggi tutto
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