In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower's many dream guises--its evolving symbolism in literature, society, and the author's own dream life using a mathopoetic technique to generate poems using the Fibonacci sequence (a pattern found in the seed spirals of sunflower). The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void embodies what Wang calls oneiric poetry: a poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams. Although dreams, in psychoanalytic discourse, have been conceptualized as a window into the unconscious, Wang's poetry emphasizes the social dimension of dreams, particularly the use of dreams to index historical trauma and social processes.

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Wang, Jackie
ISBN: 9781643620367
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 7.40 x 0.60
Number Of Pages: 120
Publication Year: 2021

The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void

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