This timely book demonstrates the centrality of metaphor to Lawrence's radical sense of the
constructed nature of all knowledge and his resulting belief in poetry as an alternative way of
knowing. The book insightfully explains how Lawrence's most important volumes of poetry Birds
Beasts and Flowers and Last Poems shatter prevailing metaphors of «mechanism» Lawrence's
shorthand for our reliance on the rational the visual and the empirical. It carefully
explores the vibrant images of these poems and how they embed the poet's revolutionary views on
knowledge. Despite his reputation Lawrence's alternative system anticipates much contemporary
feminist cultural criticism.
