Abstract: Author : I’m interested in a note that comes after “Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another” in Well Then There Now ( WTTN ). In this note, you write about your identification with Jonathan Skinner’s journal ecopoetics and the tradition of ecopoetry, as opposed to the tradition of nature writing or poetry. Do you identify as an ecopoet? Juliana Spahr : Poetry is so often and over so many thousands of years about and full of plants and birds and animals and fish. We tend to call this “nature poetry”— and I get that this term is very much under question, but we still haven’t come up with a better one yet; like, “anthropocene poetry” is not a term that gets used right now. But my interest in “ecopoetry” is thus just an interest in what poetry tends to do traditionally. From the beginning, poetry has been used as a container to hold data about the land, about animals and plants, about the cultural practices associated with these things. Poetry is sort of built for this. Or it evolves to do this early on.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
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