Devin Johnston. Precipitations: Con...
Devin Johnston. Precipitations: Contemporary American verse as Occult Practice. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Pres 2002 212 pp $1995 Any serious discussion of the hidden in contemporary culture inherits the mixed blessings of occultism's popularization in the twentieth hundred Popularization has freed occultism from the privatized world of the underhand society and the cultural elite, unless it has also l to a "pot-and-pantheism." In the popular imagination, the abstruse now includes everything from Agrippa, Plotinus, and Aleister Crowley to vampires,
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