Iris in Dark Water. A second Collection of Poems.

Language: German

Published by Writers Workshop Publication, 1982

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45 S.; 8°. Gutes Ex. - Mit WIDMUNG von Christine Krishnasami an den Filmkritiker Wolf Donner. - Mit Beilagen. / Gedichte in englischer Sprache. - INHALT : Ships That Pass -- Evening Star -- Coffee House Ballad -- Operating Table -- Charis Incarcerated -- Upon Looking Into Mary Barnard's Sappho -- Veined -- Haunted -- The Relic -- Water Music -- Gabriel -- Ash Wednesday Morning -- Six Sonnets -- Mpwapwa -- Golden Number -- The Poor Relation -- Zefiro -- Prayer of the Other Woman -- Images -- Sospiri -- Night Flight -- Panaesthesia -- Shadows Keys of St. Peter Newman Chapel. // Carl Gustav Jung argued that, in addition to sensory experience, there exists a source of "inner" experience intrinsic to the psyche, constituting the "collective Unconscious." One of Jung's psychiatric patients narrated a dream about a rainbow which was to be used as a bridge ; and yet one was to go underneath it, for whoever went over it fell down to his death. Jung was convinced that modern man must rediscover his "feeling function" as opposed to his exaggerated thinking function" ; that he must confront the shadowy waters of his Unconscious, the anima or feminine principle, and achieve wholeness of being in an embrace with the infinite Other of his desire. Thi9 can be an embrace of death as well as of affections, and one from which there may be no return : for Eros, after all, is kin to Thanatos in myth. This is the Eros of the Orphic tradition and ancient vases, white-haired and winged as he pursues a woman : the name inscribed above him "Rushing or Streaming Light" and the one above the woman "Darkness" or "Dark Water." (M. C D'Arcy, S. J., Ibid.) The following poems were culled over three decades and represent experimentation in a variety of forms, "free" verse and poetry in the guise of prose. Some are lyrical and imagist, merely descriptive of mood and experience ; some are a statement of perceived truth, and others a combination. Father D'Arcy quotes a bittersweet story by Edith Sitwell about the Sun and the Moon. When the latter is "a lonely white crone" and the former a dead King. (Vorwort; Christine Krishnasami) Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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Title
Iris in Dark Water. A second Collection of Poems.
Author
Krishnasami, Christine:
Publisher
Writers Workshop Publication
Publication year
1982
Condition
Sehr gut
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Signed by Author(s)
Language
German
Edition
Writers Workshop Redbird Book.
Item weight
550 grams
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