The Poetics of Space Paperback – December 30, 2014

Astonishing. It is best consumed in small bits. For a person like me, who has many dreams and daydreams and lives to consider comfortable spaces, this is the most beautiful description ever written.

In my 80 years, I have read mountains of books on a wide variety of topics. Never have I read one thatremained such a mystery in its meaning. Somehow, it left me blank. I gave it three stars for being such anenigma.

The book arrived in perfect condition, with quick delivery!

A beautiful book for anyone looking to theme spaces better

This book was an optional resource in a class I took years back, so I bought it and returned to finish only recently. I have it 4 stars based on an optimistic view of what I might have grasped had I a background of education in the underlying philosophies comprising concepts discussed. I plowed through many obscurity only to find within much beauty. The book as a whole felt to me as a prose poem. The quotes and references mainly are to French poets I've never heard of, but he does include much Rilke who has long been one of my favorites, and I acquired an expanded perspective there. There is an ephemeral, dreamlike quality and references to hashish make me wonder if chemicals were involved!

I LOVE this book. I’m a freshman in college now(and holy crap @ that) and an art major, and when I read the first excerpts from this for my favorite class, I bought it immediately— despite not needing to. Gaston Bachelard speaks to the root of poetic experience, how we perceive and affect the spaces around us; in effect, that our perceptions and memories *create* places in our existence that are both “real” memory and that filter of subjectivity.Look, I’m exhausted and I can’t really express both how fascinating and fantastic this book is and WHY it’s fantastic. But if you are a writer, a poet, a musician, or any kind of artist, or really, if you’re a thinking and perceptive human being, take the chance on reading this. It lifted my soul up, I swear to god: it reads like a scientist had a completely immersive acid trip and devoted the rest of his life to looking for the meaning of art— and thus, life.A note: at first, the language may seem super-dense and off-putting. STICK WITH IT. It finds its own almost poetic rhythm.

Daughter in college needed this for a class - best price found here. Delivered fast and she had it in her hands for the next time the class met.

Very heavy to read, very long sentences with multiple ideas. Hard to follow.