Dove of the Morning News
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essentialism
holocaust
internet
long poems
lyric
meditations
philosophy
psychology
Teilhard de Chardin
transference
tribalism
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- ISBN 9781647791735
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2024
- Publisher: University of Nevada Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In poems both personal and historical, The Dove of the Morning News explores conceptions of collectivity, inflected by each psyche, as a force of both connection and division. In its look at tribalism and systemic cruelty as rooted in shame, dread, and insecurity, the book seeks a better understanding of how power needs, spurred by communities of hatred, weaponize the brain’s tendencies to think in animated figures, caricatures, erasures, or, as in the book’s mediation on vellum, texts written across the bodies of others.
As a lens into contemporary life, the title sequence interrogates the vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose sense of our increasingly interwoven cultural conversation figures now as a premonition of the internet. If his hope for the noosphere as a fulfillment of divine promise feels problematic, it nonetheless sees our globe as an organism whose long-term survival depends on the capacity of each to forge friendship across difference, to take the health and integration of the individual as emblematic of the whole.
As a lens into contemporary life, the title sequence interrogates the vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose sense of our increasingly interwoven cultural conversation figures now as a premonition of the internet. If his hope for the noosphere as a fulfillment of divine promise feels problematic, it nonetheless sees our globe as an organism whose long-term survival depends on the capacity of each to forge friendship across difference, to take the health and integration of the individual as emblematic of the whole.
Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-five books including, Patmos, Behemoth, Liberation of Dissonance, and Invention of the Wilderness, plus two books of criticism: Immanent Distance, and Plurality and the Poetics of Self. He has received numerous honors including the Juniper Prize, the Elixir Press Poetry Award, the New Criterion Prize, two Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry awards, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and seven appearances in Best American Poetry. Bond teaches part time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.
