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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 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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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Series page, Copyright, Acknowledgments, Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Part 1: The Necropastoral; On Being Posthumous; Bug Time
  1. Strange Meetings in the Necropastoral: Owen, Hawkey, Césaire
  2. pp. 3-20
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  1. On Being Posthumous: Necropastoral Economies in Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, and Yi Sang
  2. pp. 21-40
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  1. Bug Time: Chitinous Necropastoral Hypertime against the Future
  2. pp. 41-46
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  1. Part 2: Leslie Scalapino; CAConrad and Chelsey Minnis; Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi; Harryette Mullen; Hannah Weiner; Translation, the Filthiest Medium of All
  1. Publicity and Obscurity: On Leslie Scalapino’s Dahlia’s Iris
  2. pp. 49-54
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  1. Art-trash: On CAConrad and Chelsey Minnis
  2. pp. 55-65
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  1. Another Litter: On the Black Arts of Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi
  2. pp. 66-82
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  1. Muse & Drudge & Art’s Ampersand
  2. pp. 83-95
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  1. Disabled Texts and the Threat of Hannah Weiner
  2. pp. 96-107
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  1. Translation, the Slavish Mold, the Filthiest Medium Alive: With Special Reference to Matthew Barney, Andy Warhol, and Divine
  2. pp. 108-114
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  1. Part 3: Eye Wound Media
  1. Eye Wound Media
  2. pp. 117-150
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  1. Part 4: The Future of Poetry
  1. The “Future” of “Poetry”
  2. pp. 153-157
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  1. Expenditure: Or, why I’m going to die trying
  2. pp. 158-163
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  1. The Mask of Art
  2. pp. 164-170
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  1. On Influence
  2. pp. 171-175
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  1. Loser Occult
  2. pp. 176-180
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  1. Arga warga: On the Doubled Ambience of Violence & Art
  2. pp. 181-188
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