Redstart : an ecological poetics / Forrest Gander and John Kinsella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gander, Forrest, 1956-

Contributor:

Kinsella, John, 1963-

Series:

Contemporary North American poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 81 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2012]

Summary:

The damage humans have perpetrated on our environment has certainly affected a poets means and material. But can poetry be ecological? Can it display or be invested with values that acknowledge the economy of interrelationship between the human and the nonhuman realms? Aside from issues of theme and reference, how might syntax, line break, or the shape of the poem on the page express an ecological ethics? To answer these questions, poets Forrest Gander and John Kinsella offer an experiment, a collaborative volume of prose and poetry that investigates-both thematically and formally-the relationship between nature and culture, language and perception.

The author of numerous books of poetry, including Core Samples from the World and Science & Steepleflower, novels, and essays, Forrest Gander is Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and recipient of the Witter Bynner fellowship from the Library of Congress, he has also won fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim, Whiting, and Howard Foundations, John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books and has won many prizes, including the Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry from the Adelaide Festival, and the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award. He has also published novels, collections of stories, verse plays, criticism, and autobiography. He is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and also a 2011/2012 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University, where he is a Fellow of Churchill College. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Future of the Past 1

The Carboniferous and Ecopoetics 5

Codex for a Protest 19

A Note on Ecopoetics 37

Redstart 39

The Movements of Yellow-Rumped Thornbills: Twittering Machines 65.

ISBN:

9781609381196

160938119X

9781609381370

1609381378

OCLC:

779472226