Redstart
Subtitle: an ecological poetics
By: Forrest Gander and John Kinsella
Contributors: Kinsella, John, 1963-
Series: Contemporary North American poetry series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9781609381196; 9781609381370
Description: Poets Forrest Gander and John Kinsella offer an experiment, a collaborative volume of prose and poetry that investigates--both thematically and formally--the relationship between nature and culture, language and perception. They ask whether, in an age of globalization, industrialization, and rapid human population growth, an ethnocentric view of human beings as a species independent from others underpins our exploitation of natural resources. Does the disease of Western subjectivity constitute an element of the aesthetics that undermine poetic resistance to the killing of the land? Why does "the land" have to give something back to the writer?