The necropastoral : poetry, media, occults /
In The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media, hos...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Poets on poetry.
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| Summary: | In The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media, hosts "strange meetings" of authors, texts and artworks across the boundaries of genre, period and nation and examines such epiphenomena as translation, anachronism and violence. Through readings of artists as diverse as Wilfred Owen, Andy Warhol, Harryette Mullen, Roberto Bolaño, Aimé Césaire and Georges Bataille, The Necropastoral shows by what strategies art persists amid lethal conditions as a spectacular, uncanny force. |
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| Physical Description: | 187 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780472072415 (hardback) 0472072412 (hardback) 9780472052417 (paperback) 0472052411 (paperback) |