Slow Fuse of the Possible: A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis

"Daniels is a keen observer of visceral moments and powerful emotions." --Kirkus Reviews "A book of burning...
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Author: Kate Daniels
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Slow Fuse of the Possible: A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis by Daniels, Kate

Slow Fuse of the Possible: A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis

¥5,457

Slow Fuse of the Possible: A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis

¥5,457
Author: Kate Daniels
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"Daniels is a keen observer of visceral moments and powerful emotions." --Kirkus Reviews
"A book of burning soulfulness." --Edward Hirsch

An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination, obsession, and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.

Slow Fuse of the Possible is a poet's narrative of a troubled psychoanalysis. It is also a commanding meditation on the powers of language, for good and for ill.

From the beginning of their time together, it is clear that the enigmatic analyst and Daniels are not a good match, yet both are determined to continue their work--the former in nearly complete silence, and the latter as best she can with the tools at her disposal: careful attention to language, deep reading, and literary imagination. Throughout, the story is filtered through the mind of Emily Dickinson, whose poetry Daniels uses as a fulcrum for the interpretation of her own experience. The book is saturated with Dickinson's verse, and Dickinson is an increasingly haunting presence as crises emerge and the author unravels.

This compelling lyric memoir, so richly steeped in all facets of language and the literary, allows readers a glimpse into the mind of a renowned poet, revealing the dazzling and anguished connections between poetry and psychoanalysis.

Author: Kate Daniels
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 01/01/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781952271380


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2021
Foreword 12/27/2021

About the Author
Kate Daniels is the author of six poetry collections, including In the Months of My Son's Recovery. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she is the Edwin Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She teaches writing at the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and is a former poet in residence at Duke Medical and Vanderbilt Medical.

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