Kevin Hart  (editor) grew up in London and Brisbane, and now lives in the USA. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Flame Tree: Selected Poems (2002). He has won both the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Awards for Poetry, and the Christopher Brennan Award for a sustained contribution to Australian poetry. His published works include studies of Jacques Derrida, A.D. Hope, Samuel Johnson, and Maurice Blanchot, and a translation of the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti. In this episode, we discuss contemplation from Hart's new book Lands of LikenessFor a Poetics of Contemplation. Book link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo202441956.html ---   Become part of the Hermitix community:   Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast  Support Hermitix:   Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix  Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod  Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2  Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK   Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74