Motive for Metaphor

This book is a small anthology: each chapter a kind of meditation-on poetry and psychoanalysis; on a poem, sometimes two; on poetry in general; on thought itself. The poems are beautiful, some are contemporary, some are classical and well worth a reader's attention. "e;The motive for metaphor"e; is the title of a short poem of Wallace Stevens in which he says he is "e;happy"e; with the subtleties ...