{"product_id":"the-poet-as-experiencer-wallace-stevens-and-nonhuman-intelligence-paperback","title":"The Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Staley Groves\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Poet as Experiencer: Wallace Stevens and Nonhuman Intelligence, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 extended, coded testimony of contact with nonhuman intelligence. Drawing from journals, uncollected poems, and landmark works such as \u003ci\u003eHarmonium\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Necessary Angel, \u003c\/i\u003eGroves argues that Stevens's poetic evolution mirrors the psychological and spiritual trajectory of an experiencer grappling with anomalous phenomena long before cognitive frameworks for such were culturally available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom moths and owls to missing time and the ethics of the imagination, Groves reads Stevens's work as a sustained effort to reckon with anomalous phenomena whose language has not yet come. Through careful textual analysis and historical correlation, Groves positions the poet within a lineage that includes Coleridge, Baudelaire, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, who are recast not only as theorists of the imagination but as precursors to a modern metaphysical crisis now resurfacing through the contemporary discourse on UFOs and UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). Integrating rigorous literary scholarship with insights from ufology, psychology, and metaphysical philosophy, Groves investigates Stevens's use of abstraction, the ethics of poetic imagination, and the emergence of the \"true subject\" as a form of ontological rupture. In doing so, the book bridges the hermetic with the historical, and the poetic with the paranormal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Staley Groves\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, painter, academic teacher, and independent scholar permanently based in Singapore. His published research includes the theory of poetry, philosophy, and technology. Adam is the author of two volumes of poetry\u003ci\u003e Poetry Vocare\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eFilial Arcade\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336844493049,"sku":"9781685712761","price":31.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Q-ThaT5BPk9781685712761.webp?v=1769671392","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-poet-as-experiencer-wallace-stevens-and-nonhuman-intelligence-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}