| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Gilgamesh -- The library -- Generation -- The tropics, & 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 & superstition -- Psychosm -- Superfluity -- The empty house -- The times promised -- The uninterrupted tissue -- Citations -- Biographical glossary |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry -- History and criticism
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Nature in literature.
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Nature conservation in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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Ecology in literature
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Environmental protection in literature
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Nature conservation in literature
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Nature in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780820344805 |
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082034480X |
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