The Poet as Experiencer
In The Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence, Adam Staley Groves approaches Stevens, not merely as poet–thinker but rather as experiencer and theorist of what is today called “the phenomenon” (UFOs). Challenging both Stevens scholarship and our broader understanding of poeti...
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| description | In The Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence, Adam Staley Groves approaches Stevens, not merely as poet–thinker but rather as experiencer and theorist of what is today called “the phenomenon” (UFOs). Challenging both Stevens scholarship and our broader understanding of poetic consciousness, the book presents a radical appraisal of Stevens’s oeuvre as an extended, coded testimony of contact with nonhuman intelligence. Drawing from journals, uncollected poems, and landmark works such as Harmonium and The Necessary Angel, Groves argues that Stevens’s poetic evolution mirrors the psychological and spiritual trajectory of an experiencer grappling with anomalous phenomena long before cognitive frameworks for such were culturally available. From moths and owls to missing time and the ethics of the imagination, Groves reads Stevens’s work as a sustained effort to reckon with anomalous phenomena whose language has not yet come. Through careful textual analysis and historical correlation, Groves positions the poet within a lineage that includes Coleridge, Baudelaire, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, who are recast not only as theorists of the imagination but as precursors to a modern metaphysical crisis now resurfacing through the contemporary discourse on UFOs and UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). Integrating rigorous literary scholarship with insights from ufology, psychology, and metaphysical philosophy, Groves investigates Stevens’s use of abstraction, the ethics of poetic imagination, and the emergence of the “true subject” as a form of ontological rupture. In doing so, the book bridges the hermetic with the historical, and the poetic with the paranormal. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1660052025-08-19T05:04:55Z The Poet as Experiencer Groves, Adam Staley Wallace Stevens theory of poetry UFO nonhuman intelligence literary studies extraterrestrials thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KB North America (USA and Canada)::1KBB United States of America, USA thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VX Mind, body, spirit::VXQ Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal::VXQB UFOs and extraterrestrial beings thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry and poets In The Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence, Adam Staley Groves approaches Stevens, not merely as poet–thinker but rather as experiencer and theorist of what is today called “the phenomenon” (UFOs). Challenging both Stevens scholarship and our broader understanding of poetic consciousness, the book presents a radical appraisal of Stevens’s oeuvre as an extended, coded testimony of contact with nonhuman intelligence. Drawing from journals, uncollected poems, and landmark works such as Harmonium and The Necessary Angel, Groves argues that Stevens’s poetic evolution mirrors the psychological and spiritual trajectory of an experiencer grappling with anomalous phenomena long before cognitive frameworks for such were culturally available. From moths and owls to missing time and the ethics of the imagination, Groves reads Stevens’s work as a sustained effort to reckon with anomalous phenomena whose language has not yet come. Through careful textual analysis and historical correlation, Groves positions the poet within a lineage that includes Coleridge, Baudelaire, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, who are recast not only as theorists of the imagination but as precursors to a modern metaphysical crisis now resurfacing through the contemporary discourse on UFOs and UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). Integrating rigorous literary scholarship with insights from ufology, psychology, and metaphysical philosophy, Groves investigates Stevens’s use of abstraction, the ethics of poetic imagination, and the emergence of the “true subject” as a form of ontological rupture. In doing so, the book bridges the hermetic with the historical, and the poetic with the paranormal. 2025-08-19T05:04:54Z 2025-08-19T05:04:54Z 2025-08-18T11:59:56Z 2025 book ONIX_20250818T135708_9781685712778_17 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105554 9781685712778 9781685712761 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166005 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105554/1/0296.1.00.pdf punctum books punctum books 10.53288/0296.1.00 10.53288/0296.1.00 12970da4-0116-4486-b8be-fc9756703ab1 9781685712778 9781685712761 punctum books 186 Brooklyn open access |
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