{"product_id":"a-way-of-seeing-john-allison-9781584200123","title":"A Way of Seeing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe usually think of imagination as a fanciful, whimsical faculty that has little to do with reality and truth. This beautifully written book by the Australian poet John Allison shows how ordinary imagination can be intensified to become an organ of cognition--a path of development to real knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllison shows how poetry--poetic knowing and seeing--can reveal aspects of the world invisible to science. Three lucid chapters describe the path to true imagination, where attention is the key. First we must practice it, then we must become aware of the processes involved in it. Learning to experience \"poise,\" we must come to terms with the shadow--or all that says \"No\" in us. The combination of attention, equanimity, and assent opens the world in a new way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllison then examines how poets have actually developed and practiced the kind of \"deep seeing\" that \"image work\" involves. For this he draws on William Shakespeare, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novalis, John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Octavio Paz. The author concludes with a sequence of his own poems that exemplify the philosophy and practice he has developed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Allison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 158420012X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584200123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lindisfarne Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.58w x 0.49d","brand":"John Allison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124906815743,"sku":"9781584200123","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c8a18bf-0803-4f4f-a6d7-5fa403933e22.jpg?v=1687439513","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-way-of-seeing-john-allison-9781584200123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}