Poetry and Mindfulness

Bryan Walpert is Associate Professor in the School of English & Media Studies at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. His publications include the poetry collections Etymology, A History of Glass, and Native Bird; the fiction collection Ephraim’s Eyes, and the monograph Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry.

“what Walpert does so beautifully in this book is use the art to save the art. … Poetry and Mindfulness is primarily aimed at those who teach literary studies and creative writing ‘who find themselves pressed by students, colleagues, or those beyond the academy to explain the relevance of poetry’. It will also interest poets, and anyone interested in current research about the intersections between literature and wellbeing, or mindfulness and wellbeing. It’s worth interrupting your journey to read this book.” (Sue Wootton, Corpus, corpus.nz, November 19, 2018)

• .-1 Introduction.-2 Mindfulness, Mindlessness, Poetry.-3 The First Fruit: Interruption to a Journey.-4 Nature, Defamiliarization, Ambiguity.-5 The Second Fruit: No-Self.-6 The Third Fruit: Poetry, Ecology, Contingency.