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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... poet, scholar, and gentleman Jaime Quezada, who arranged on two occasions for me to lecture to the young poets of the Fundación Neruda's poetry workshop on Walcott and Neruda; the wonderful translator and lover of all things Chilean ...
... poet must pretend that it happens as if for the first time . Without this as if qualification the poet will become blind to history and only see the broad spread of the world's innocent newness ; poetry will function as a neocolonial ...
... poet seeks the dark, unilluminated spaces of human belonging in the larger scope of natural history. As we will see, these poets repeatedly fail in this endeavor, but in failure they succeed in highlighting the need for forging imagined ...
... poets history's liminality in the natural world tempers nature's promise of facile innocence, but it also does not ... poet's poetics turns on the question of the relationship between a more-than-an-island New World community and its ...
... poets to uncover each poet's potential for leading us into this mem- bership in an Ancient New World. These poets' intimations of an ancient earth are paradoxically fed by the newness of the world, a newness that is sustained neither by ...
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