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# The Poetics of Space

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The Poetics of Space [Bachelard, Gaston, Jolas, Maria, Kearney, Richard, Danielewski, Mark Z.] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Poetics of Space

Review: Astonishing. - Astonishing. It is best consumed in small bits. For a person like me, who has many dreams and daydreams and lives to consider comfortable spaces, this is the most beautiful description ever written.
Review: The Poetics of Space is a classic book... - I read this book as a graduate student in Boston about 40 years ago, and re-purchased it just recently to have a second leisurely look at it...to remember its beauty and provocative meanings. This book changed my life in a wonderful way; it gave me a new vocabulary to understand my experiences of living, it confirmed and affirmed how I daily lived with a personal 'poetics' called Me... Professor Gaston Bachelard, from France, defined a sensibility and sensitivity called "intimate immensities", which is one way of expressing a pantheistic and human "phenomenology". If you are an artist or musician or poet, etc. you "got it in you" and you recognize "it" in everything around you... Lao Tzu in ancient China called it the Tao, there are many other names from many countries and cultures... The only caution I would note about this book, is that it is densely written in a professorial philosophical way; it not a casual read. I can suggest many children's picture books that express a similar sentiment, more with pictures than with university-level text. But if you enjoy "a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche" (page 1 of the Introduction), then this book is for you...

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #31,236 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Architectural Criticism #3 in Phenomenological Philosophy #25 in Philosophy Metaphysics |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,050) |
| Dimensions  | 0.8 x 5.1 x 7.7 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0143107526 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0143107521 |
| Item Weight  | 9.2 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 304 pages |
| Publication date  | December 30, 2014 |
| Publisher  | Penguin Classics |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Astonishing.
*by L***E on April 16, 2025*

Astonishing. It is best consumed in small bits. For a person like me, who has many dreams and daydreams and lives to consider comfortable spaces, this is the most beautiful description ever written.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Poetics of Space is a classic book...
*by A***G on February 3, 2012*

I read this book as a graduate student in Boston about 40 years ago, and re-purchased it just recently to have a second leisurely look at it...to remember its beauty and provocative meanings. This book changed my life in a wonderful way; it gave me a new vocabulary to understand my experiences of living, it confirmed and affirmed how I daily lived with a personal 'poetics' called Me... Professor Gaston Bachelard, from France, defined a sensibility and sensitivity called "intimate immensities", which is one way of expressing a pantheistic and human "phenomenology". If you are an artist or musician or poet, etc. you "got it in you" and you recognize "it" in everything around you... Lao Tzu in ancient China called it the Tao, there are many other names from many countries and cultures... The only caution I would note about this book, is that it is densely written in a professorial philosophical way; it not a casual read. I can suggest many children's picture books that express a similar sentiment, more with pictures than with university-level text. But if you enjoy "a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche" (page 1 of the Introduction), then this book is for you...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Drive Behind All Art And Poetry
*by D***Y on October 2, 2019*

I LOVE this book. I’m a freshman in college now(and holy crap @ that) and an art major, and when I read the first excerpts from this for my favorite class, I bought it immediately— despite not needing to. Gaston Bachelard speaks to the root of poetic experience, how we perceive and affect the spaces around us; in effect, that our perceptions and memories *create* places in our existence that are both “real” memory and that filter of subjectivity. Look, I’m exhausted and I can’t really express both how fascinating and fantastic this book is and WHY it’s fantastic. But if you are a writer, a poet, a musician, or any kind of artist, or really, if you’re a thinking and perceptive human being, take the chance on reading this. It lifted my soul up, I swear to god: it reads like a scientist had a completely immersive acid trip and devoted the rest of his life to looking for the meaning of art— and thus, life. A note: at first, the language may seem super-dense and off-putting. STICK WITH IT. It finds its own almost poetic rhythm.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Poetics of Space
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