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Columns::November 11, 2002
Weekly Reader
Book examines ecology in U.S. poetry
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$39.95
University of Georgia Press |
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, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at UGA, 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 Creely 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.
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 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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