Phantasmagoric Elegies? A late guide to wandering

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What is the thinking that poetry does? Amid shifting appearances, and in their attempts to capture evanescent moments of resonance, I read selected texts from Rilke, Stevens, and Nietzsche as engaging unconscious processes of wandering/wondering which enable creative producers to see what may already be there. Characterising creativity as a mode of swarming responsiveness, this ficto-critical paper reads Rilkean bees, Stevensonian lakes, and Nietzschean machines against the grain of Freud's notions of negation and libido, to speculate how wandering – into unfamiliar space, and across language – is inherently psychogeographical, as randomly filled with potential as the flâneur's approach to next interlude within phantasmagoric arenas. © 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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