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 thematically and
formally-the relationship between nature and culture, language and
perception. They ask whether, in an age of globalization,
industrialization, and rapid human population growth, an
ethnocentric view of human beings as a species independent from
others underpins our exploitation of natural resources. Does the
disease of Western subjectivity constitute an element of the
aesthetics that undermine poetic resistance to the killing of the
land? Why does "the land" have to give something back to the
writer? This innovative volume speaks to all people wanting to
understand how artistic and critical endeavours can enrich, rather
than impoverish, the imperilled world around us.
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