Poetry, the I Ching, and synchronicity: Reflections on Richard Berengarten's Changing

In this chapter I reflect on Richard Berengarten’s long poem Changing (2016) in light of the poet’s implicit claim that synchronicity – as a modern form of correlative thinking – provides the mental foundation for poetry. I first clarify what Jung meant by synchronicity, including what the concept entails philosophically, and then attempt a reading of one cluster of seven poems in Changing, with the concept of synchronicity in mind.