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Dennis Slattery (Author)
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December 21, 2006

"A glance at these 30 essays reveals Professor Slattery's astoundingly vast and varied range of scholarly interests....These disciplines function for Dennis as modes of knowing, modes of imagining."

--Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University.

Elizabeth Fergus-Jean, Ph.D., is an artist and professor at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio and faculty in the Humanities Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her artwork appears on numerous book and journal covers.


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About the Author

Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. is Core Faculty, Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California. He is the author of 10 books, including two volumes of poetry, all of which reveal the cross patterns shared by poetry, depth psychology, mythology, memory, metaphor and human embodiment. In addition, Dr. Slattery's interests extend into the wider cultural world. His writing appears as well in newspapers, magazines, journals, conferences and nationally in workshops on Joseph Campbell and personal mythology.


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  • Paperback: 444 pages
  • Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (December 21, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0595419259
  • ISBN-13: 978-0595419258
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond "The Wounded Body" Lives "A Limbo of Shards"!, February 27, 2007
This review is from: A Limbo of Shards: Essays on Memory Myth and Metaphor (Paperback)
A "Limbo of Shards" is a provocative collection of essays that continue Professor Slattery's examination of the image of the wound in the fleshing of psychological life beyond the wounded body of our broken metaphors and their unnamed futures.

From essays such as "Poetry's Mode of Knowing: Dante's Pilgrimage From Mimesis To Wisdom 2006" and "Eros and Psyche: The Rite To Wound and the Swelling of Consciousness 2003" to "The True Terror of Terrorism 2002" the author guides me in rethinking my imaginal and transitional space which lay metaphorically "at the midpoint of my life." It is here the collective and poetic basis in mind is communal. It is here my own poetic thought will recreate and re-emerge in conscious living.

So it is here to a kind of limbo these essays escort me. What I am to do here is re-member, re-vision and re-vise my memories, mythic images and metaphors. Here's what happened throughout "me" as I did.

I imagined as I read these essays, the author in each essay, indeed, made such an attempt. I also found each essay generous in its own re-visioning statements. Re-imagining I re-pictured this word-terrain of shards like a great cut-work design. "A Limbo of Shards" helped me rediscover a certain voice, a voice of presentness and with it, a power that differenced my sense of aliveness and distinguished that from my general life situation. This collection of essays is powerful reading!

Stephanie Pope

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Few writers in the history of American letters have had the capacity to bring myth and history together poetically with such a prevalent force that William Faulkner's writings exhibit. Read the first page
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metaphor memorial, holy laughter, gospel saleswoman, memory metaphorical, iconic imagination, analogy formation, infernal realm, epic action
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New York, The Idiot, Joseph Campbell, Dostoevsky's The Possessed, Tragedy of Compassion, Dostoevsky's Convulsive Poetics, Redemptive Muse, Dostoevsky's Crime, Dante's Pilgrimage From Mimesis, The Narrative Play, Poetry's Mode, Redeeming Learning, Twenty-first Century, The Rite, Bollingen Series, The Wounded Body, Tending the Muse of Poetry, James Hillman, Mother Russia, The Terezin Ghetto, Nikolay Stavrogin, Centering the Earth, New Haven, Centering the Body, Louise Cowan
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