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This compost : ecological imperatives in American poetry
- Title
- This compost : ecological imperatives in American poetry / Jed Rasula.
- Author
- Rasula, Jed.
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2002], ©2002.
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- Description
- xv, 259 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.
- ISBN
- 0820323667 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002000856
- OCLC
- 48858212
- ocm48858212
- SCSB-4316899
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries