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Walpert sets out the challenges faced by the humanities, including societal skepticism and declining enrolments, which act a context for the book’s defense of the usefulness of studying poetry. Walpert lays out the role mindfulness plays in considering the utility of poetry and suggests the major parallels between the study of poetry and the “fruits” of mindfulness practice: the development of a sense of presence, the interrogation of the conventional stable sense of “self,” and the development of a systems view of the world as interconnected and interdependent.
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Walpert, B. (2017). Introduction. In: Poetry and Mindfulness. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68681-3_1
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