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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gander, Forrest, 1956-

Contributor:

Kinsella, John, 1963-

Series:

Contemp North American Poetry

Contemporary North American poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The damage humans have perpetrated on our environment has certainly affected a poet's 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 thema

Contents:

Contents; Prefatory Note; The Future of the Past; The Carboniferous and Ecopoetics; Codex for a Protest; A Note on Ecopoetics; Redstart; The Movements of Yellow-Rumped Thornbills; A Note on the Collaborative Process; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781609381370

1609381378

OCLC:

811206310