Poetry and Consciousness : Daisy Aldan [ Poetry , Essay, First Edition ]

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First edition of the mystically interesting lyric essay on creativity Poetry and Consciousness by poet and editor Daisy Aldan

 

Aldan, Daisy. Poetry and Consciousness. St. George Publications : Spring Valley, NY. 1978. First edition.

In the Poem

the core of Man

encounters

the might

of Stars.

-Daisy Aldan, The Poem

 

 

“Poetry and Consciousness” is a well-consider lyric essay examining the nature of creativity, writing, and creation by Daisy Aldan. Arguing that “the poet is a kind of magician who makes the intangible tangible and the tangible intangible,” Aldan says that it is the job of the poet to pull aside the layers of inherited cliché and discover authentic expression and true artistry. In addition, the short treatise is followed by an original poem, quoted above.

A noted poet, editor, and teacher, Daisy Aldan is especially well remembered for her translations of Stephané Mallarmé, Rudolf Steiner, and Arthur Steffen. The editor and co-founder of Folder Magazine of Literature and Art, she also collaborated as coeditor on the bilingual journal Two Cities with personal friend Anaïs Nin. Along with Folder Magazine partner Richard Miller, she cofounded Tiber Press, which later became Folder Editions and through which she published the 1959 poetry and visual art anthology A New Folder: Americans: Poems and Drawings. She was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Prize in 1968 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Between High Tides and In Passage in 1978, and in 1991 for her novella, Day of the Wounded Eagle. Her papers are collected at Yale and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She died in 2001.

 

5 copies in OCLC as of July 2022.

 

8vo, 6pp, staple bound pamphlet in printed pink wraps. Some sunning to spine and wrap edges. Minor curling to corners. Good condition.

 

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