The Unsaid: Hermetic Poetry Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

by Karl Simms

Hermetic poetry is poetry which contains aporias, or gaps in reference, which frustrate a conventional search for meaning - their meaning lies in what is 'unsaid'. Many readers find such poetry obscure or difficult, since what is left unsaid is, typically, what the poem is 'about'. Hermetic poems are often, but not necessarily, minimalistic: this book, however, studies hermeticism in poetry, rather than merely assuming that hermetic poetry is a separate,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783488662
• ISBN13: 9781783488667
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary