[New-Poetry] the ethics of attention in Derek Walcott’s Omeros.

[rwilsnac at medicine.nodak.edu]

Quoting jforjames at aol.com:

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http://luc8.wordpress.com/work/dissertation/omeros-poetry-proximity-and-the-ethics-of-attention/omeros-and-attention/
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> way-making
> Omeros and Attention
> Posted by luc8 on November 3rd, 2007
> Nearing what is Human:
> Poetry, proximity and the ethics of attention in Derek Walcott’s Omeros.
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> In what follows I will be focusing on the work of St Lucian poet Derek
> Walcott. In a reading of the opening passage of his epic Omeros, I will focus
> on the notion of attention, constituted by Heideggerian notions of nearness,
> care, and letting-be. I will be seeking ways in which these poems undergo,
> and impose upon us a pre-rational encounter similar to that suggested by
> Levinas - an encounter located in attention, in immediate proximity, but with
> the additional movement of letting-be, or what Heidegger referred to as
> Gelassenheit: the act of nearing without seizing or possessing.

Say whaaaaaat????

Richard W. Wilsnack
rwilsnac at medicine.nodak.edu