In this Book
- The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Poets on Poetry
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.
Table of Contents
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- Part 1: The Necropastoral; On Being Posthumous; Bug Time
- Part 2: Leslie Scalapino; CAConrad and Chelsey Minnis; Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi; Harryette Mullen; Hannah Weiner; Translation, the Filthiest Medium of All
- Muse & Drudge & Art’s Ampersand
- pp. 83-95
- Part 3: Eye Wound Media
- Eye Wound Media
- pp. 117-150
- Part 4: The Future of Poetry
- The “Future” of “Poetry”
- pp. 153-157
- Expenditure: Or, why I’m going to die trying
- pp. 158-163
- The Mask of Art
- pp. 164-170
- On Influence
- pp. 171-175
- Loser Occult
- pp. 176-180
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472120741
Related ISBN(s)
9780472052417, 9780472072415
MARC Record
OCLC
915697150
Pages
198
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-06
Language
English
Open Access
No