New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and WalcottUniversity of Georgia Press, 25 янв. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 442 A simultaneously ecocritical and comparative study, New World Poetics plumbs the earthly depth and social breadth of the poetry of Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, and Derek Walcott, three of the Americas' most ambitious and epic-minded poets. In Whitman's call for a poetry of New World possibility, Neruda's invocation of an "American love," and Walcott's investment in the poetic ironies of an American epic, the adamic imagination of their poetry does not reinvent the mythical Garden that stands before history's beginnings but instead taps the foundational powers of language before a natural world deeply imbued with the traces of human time. Theirs is a postlapsarian Adam seeking a renewed sense of place in a biocentric and cross-cultural New World through language and nature's capacity for regeneration in the wake of human violence and suffering. The book introduces the environmental history of the Americas and its relationship to the foundation of American and Latin American studies, explores its relevance to each poet's ambition to recuperate the New World's lost histories, and provides a transnational poetics of understanding literary influence and textual simultaneity in the Americas. The study provides much needed in-depth ecocritical readings of the major poems of the three poets, insisting on the need for thoughtful regard for the challenge to human imagination and culture posed by nature's regenerative powers; nuanced appreciation for the difficulty of balancing the demands of social justice within the context of deep time; and the symptomatic dangers as well as healing potential of human self-consciousness in light of global environmental degradation. |
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... memories of Neruda at her house and with whom I spoke late into the night along with Hernán Soto about the fate of Chilean poetry; the staff at Fundación Neruda; my guide, the talented painter José Riveros; and Tomás Harris at the ...
... memory and it is the bitterness that dries last on the tongue " ( 40-41 ) . This adamic poetry is an expression of " awe ” before the wonders of a New World whose beauty has survived or has even , paradoxically , been nurtured by the ...
... memory to amnesia and becomes the coterminous point of contact between nature and culture. In the modern sensibilities of these poets history's liminality in the natural world tempers nature's promise of facile innocence, but it also ...
... memory of our belonging in the natural world, but he is also aware of poetry's failings in this regard. Significantly for my purposes here, Whitman's democratic vistas are his emblem of poetry's as yet incomplete realization of its ...
... memory but instead embraces the ironies of a regenerating and regenerative natural world . Chapter 3 concludes part 1 with an exploration of the implications of the ecology of New World literature in the story of Whitman's influence in ...
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