{"product_id":"desire-and-infinity-in-w-s-merwins-poetry-9780807176115","title":"Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first monograph on W. S. Merwin to appear since his death in 2019, Feng Dong focuses on the dialectical movement of desire and infinity that ensouls the poet's entire oeuvre. His analysis foregrounds what Merwin calls \"the other side of despair,\" the opposite of humans' articulated personal and social agonies. Feng finds these presences in Merwin's evocations of what lingers on the edge of constantly updated socio-symbolic frameworks: surreal encounters, spiritual ecstasies, and abyssal freedoms. By examining Merwin's lifelong engagement with psychic fantasies, anonymous holiness, entities both natural and supernatural, and ghostly ancestors, Feng uncovers a precarious relation with the unarticulated, unrealized side of existence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on theories from Lacan, Zizek, Levinas, and Heidegger, \u003ci\u003eDesire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e reads a metaphysical possibility into the poet's work at the intersection between contemporary poetics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeng Dong\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at Qingdao University in China. His essays and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eCollege Literature, Critical Inquiry, Journal of Modern Literature, \u003c\/i\u003e and other journals\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382064910610,"sku":"9780807176115","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e14eea9-bd34-4991-96be-bc7c4ea2d40f.jpg?v=1728702193","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/desire-and-infinity-in-w-s-merwins-poetry-9780807176115","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}