The Poetics of Space
| Author | Bachelard, Gaston |
| Published | 1958 |
| Status | read |
| Recommender | Julian P. |
| Rating | 5/5 |
I read this book first in 2024, and I don’t know how it took me that long to hear about it. It’s a poetic ramble, a refutation of hard philosophy. It’s still very insightful despite its poetic bent.
This is the kind of book you take with you on a road trip, particularly if you will stay in lodgings unfamiliar to you, such as a tent or an Airbnb. It’s the kind of book that’ll have you revisiting poets you’ve read and taking notes on ones you’ve not heard of.
It features synthesis and intertextual reference and metaphor, tenuous and considered.
Man, what a cool book.
