Poetry And Mindfulness: Interruption To A Journey
by Bryan Walpert /
2017 / English / PDF
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At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book
offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing
interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and
education. The book argues that the benefits and insights
mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of
poetry. These benefits include a focus on the present, the
ability to see through scripts and habits, a rethinking of
subjectivity, and the development of ecological or systems
thinking. Bryan Walpert employs close readings of traditional
and experimental poetry and draws on scientific studies of the
effects of mindfulness or reading literature on the brain. It
argues the skills that poetry, like mindfulness, cultivates are
useful beyond the page or classroom and ultimately are
necessary to engage with such global issues as the
environmental crisis.
At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book
offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing
interest in mindfulness in business, health care, and
education. The book argues that the benefits and insights
mindfulness provides are also cultivated by the study of
poetry. These benefits include a focus on the present, the
ability to see through scripts and habits, a rethinking of
subjectivity, and the development of ecological or systems
thinking. Bryan Walpert employs close readings of traditional
and experimental poetry and draws on scientific studies of the
effects of mindfulness or reading literature on the brain. It
argues the skills that poetry, like mindfulness, cultivates are
useful beyond the page or classroom and ultimately are
necessary to engage with such global issues as the
environmental crisis.