Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our
surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern
poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds
of the poets themselves. In "This Compost" 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.
Rasula begins by examining poets associated with Black Mountain
College in the 1950s--Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert
Duncan--and their successors. But "This Compost" extends to include
earlier poets like Robinson Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky,
Kenneth Rexroth, and Muriel Rukeyser, as well as Clayton Eshleman,
Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and other contemporary poets. Walt
Whitman and Emily Dickinson also make appearances. Rasula draws
this diverse group of poets together, uncovering how the past is a
"compost" fertilizing the present. He looks at the heritage of
ancient lore and the legacy of modern history and colonial violence
as factors contributing to ecological imperatives in modern
poetry.
"This Compost" restores the dialogue between poetic language and
the geophysical, biological realm of nature that so much postmodern
discourse has sought to silence. It is a fully developed, carefully
argued book that deals with an underrepresented element in modern
American culture, where the natural world and those who write about
it have been greatly neglected in contemporary literary history and
theory.
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