The Necropastoral
Subtitle: Poetry, Media, Occults
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Dec 22, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780472072415
Description: " 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"--
Notes: Source title: The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (Poets On Poetry)