A Flight of Ideas — Reimagining Bachelard Through Poetry
Who was Gaston Bachelard — and why interpret him through poetry?
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) was a French philosopher celebrated for his work in poetics and the philosophy of science.Though not a poet himself, he profoundly shaped modern thinking about imagination, metaphor, and the symbolic power of the elements.
Frank Prem first encountered Bachelard via a passing comment suggesting the philosopher’s ideas were “made for poetry.” That spark led Prem to immerse himself in thirteen translated volumes of Bachelard’s writing on imagination and elemental metaphor. The result is Bachelard Interpreted — an eight-part poetic conversation that echoes and reimagines Bachelard’s elemental vision.
A Flight of Ideas is the fourth volume in this series, written by Australian poet and storyteller Frank Prem (Small Town Kid, Devil In The Wind, The New Asylum – a memoir of psychiatry).
Look Inside
through the morning
she watched
the creation of a cloud
from traces
glimpsed on the horizon . . .
slowly
sailing forward . . .
growing
billow
upon billow
of feather-filled
soft curves
high on high
an accumulation
of roundness
voluptuating beauty
in low sun
a seduction
wearing
down
Dive into an interpretation of Air and the Poetics of Flight
A Flight of Ideas explores Bachelard’s poetic meditations on dreams, reverie, and the lightness of being. Prem lets the poetic impulse rise organically, crafting free verse responses that reflect and inhabit Bachelard’s vision.
Join the journey with A Flight of Ideas — the fourth collection in the Bachelard Interpreted series.
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