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" 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 me...

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Main Author: McSweeney, Joyelle, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Series:Poets on poetry
Subjects:
Poetics.
Experimental poetry > 21st century > History and criticism.
Poetry > 21st century > History and criticism.
Poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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 Bolano, Aime Cesaire, and Georges Bataille, The Necropastoral shows by what strategies art persists amid lethal conditions as a spectacular, uncanny force"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780472120741
0472120743
DOI:10.3998/mpub.7573327