The Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence

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In The Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence, Adam Staley Groves approaches Stevens, not merely as poet–thinker but rather as experiencer and theorist of what is today called “the phenomenon” (UFOs). Challenging both Stevens scholarship and our broader understanding of poetic consciousness, the book presents a radical appraisal of Stevens’s oeuvre as an[…]

Wilhelm Reich versus the Flying Saucers: An American Tragedy

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Published: 06/27/2024

The convenient myth of Wilhelm Reich is that he “lost his mind” in the early 1950s, if not before, and that the last seven years of his life and work—the orgone and radiation experiments, the cloudbuster, and flying saucer intrigues—present an embarrassment. Even the counterculture that embraced Reich, not least William S. Burroughs, Norman Mailer,[…]

Speaking with the Dead: An Ethnography of Extrahuman Experience

Published: 05/28/2024

If you tried speaking with a dead person and they gave you a clear response, how would you react? Mediums develop their minds and bodies to communicate messages from the deceased to their living loved ones, and in Speaking with the Dead, anthropologist Matt Tomlinson describes his experiences training as a medium with a Spiritualist[…]