NEGATIVE CAPABILITY IN THE VERSE OF JOHN WIENERS, by Micah Ballard (INSCRIBED association copy)

Auguste Press, 2001, First edition,  82 pp., 4" X 6", Stapled wraps

Very good (INSCRIBED to poet Lewis Warsh and retains his personal library stamp)

How does one live a life between the lines of what one speaks and reads? How can the imagination, through experience, discover truth and beauty? In this manifesto, the work of the poet John Wieners tries on the various robes of Negative Capability as sewn and tailored by the poet John Keats.

Negative Capability in the verse of John Wieners is an outtake from my thesis for the Poetics Program at New College of California. I wanted it to look like a mini-manifesto, a small pamphlet reminiscent of Walter Jackson Bates’s  Negative Capability: the Intuitive Approach to Keats - something that could pass as an offering to further the dialogue with others close to my thinking.   -Micah Ballard

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