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"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 Ameri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rasula, Jed (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012]
Edition:Paperback edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nature in literature.
Nature conservation in literature.
Environmental protection in literature.
Ecology in literature.
American poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Environnement > Protection, dans la litterature.
Nature dans la litterature.
Poesie americaine > Histoire et critique.
American poetry > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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