This compost : ecological imperatives in American poetry / Jed Rasula.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rasula, Jed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Nature in literature.

Environmental protection in literature.

Nature conservation in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 259 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Compost restores the dialogue between poetic language and the geophysical, biological realm of nature that so much postmodern discourse has sought to silence. Rasula surveys both the convictions asserted by American poets and the poetics they develop in their craft, all with an eye toward an emerging ecological worldview.

Contents:

Intro

This Compost

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Gilgamesh

The library

Generation

The tropics, &amp

the trope

Cinders

Vomito cogito

That origin which is act … that riddle which is awe

The archaic and the old lore

Indian skin

On the extremest verge

The rim, the sediment

Necropoetics

Muses' archetext

A skin of mouths

The vessel

Nigredo

From Saturn to Demeter

Milk light

The floor of the upside down

The starry horizon

The frozen being

Emanation

Memoranda and signatures

Proprioception

Vertigo

Characters

Language obeyed

Pestilence

De rerum natura : epic's lyric absolute

Ghosts of inner ecology

Origin

Detritus pathways

Scruples &amp

superstition

Psychosm

Superfluity

The empty house

The times promised

The uninterrupted tissue

Citations

Bibliography

Biographical Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Paperback edition, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.

ISBN:

9780820344805

082034480X

OCLC:

854974314