Myths and Metaphors by J. Neil C. Garcia

Myths and Metaphors gathers together Neil C. Garcia's recent essays on poetics--personal and otherwise. These pieces are reflection on the relationship between narrative and lyric modes of perceiving, between imagination and memory, art and life. Finally, they also aspire to leap over the yawning gap underlying all of existence--the ontological crack that separates the dead and the living. That all art, all writing seeks to attain the status of myth, and that myth is necessarily metaphorical of the world's irreducible mystery, are insights towards which Garcia gestures again and again. As with his poetry collections, this book bears eloquent witness not only to a fierce intelligence, but also to its acts of marvelous attention.

Paperback: 176 pages
ISBN/ISSN: 9789715062008
Language: English
Publisher: UST Publishing House