Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.

Houses and rooms; cellars and attics; drawers, chests and wardrobes; nests and shells; nooks and corners: no space is too vast or too small to be filled by our thoughts and our reveries. In Bachelard's enchanting spaces "we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost."

With an introduction by acclaimed philosopher Richard Kearney and a foreword by author Mark Z. Danielewski.

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.

Houses and rooms; cellars and attics; drawers, chests and wardrobes; nests and shells; nooks and corners: no space is too vast or too small to be filled by our thoughts and our reveries. In Bachelard's enchanting spaces "we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost."

With an introduction by acclaimed philosopher Richard Kearney and a foreword by author Mark Z. Danielewski.