This Compost : Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry.

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 po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rasula, Jed
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2002.
Subjects:	American poetry > History and criticism. Nature in literature. Environmental protection in literature. Nature conservation in literature. Ecology in literature. American poetry Ecology in literature Environmental protection in literature Nature conservation in literature Nature in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Cover; 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 absoluteGhosts of inner ecology; Origin; Detritus pathways; Scruples & superstition; Psychosm; Superfluity; The empty house; The times promised; The uninterrupted tissue; Citations; Bibliography; Biographical Glossary; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

This Compost : Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry.

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