Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction (Posthumanities #50)

Synopsis

How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system and all life-forms that it supports. The challenge it poses—how to live in our present moment alongside deep pasts and futures—brings into sharp focus the importance of grasping the nature of our intimate relationship with geological time. In Anthropocene Poetics, David Farrier shows how contemporary poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Evelyn Reilly, and Christian Bök, among others, provides us with frameworks for thinking about this uncanny sense of time.Looking at a diverse array of lyric and avant-garde poetry from three interrelated perspectives—the Anthropocene and the “material turn” in environmental philosophy; the Plantationocene and the role of global capitalism in environmental crisis; and the emergence of multispecies ethics and extinction studies—Farrier rethinks the environmental humanities from a literary critical perspective. Anthropocene Poetics puts a concern with deep time at the center, defining a new poetics for thinking through humanity’s role as geological agents, the devastation caused by resource extraction, and the looming extinction crisis.

Copyright:

2019

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ISBN-13:

9781452959535

Related ISBNs:

9781517906269

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press

Date of Addition:

02/19/19

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University of Minnesota Press

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts, Philosophy

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