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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... possibility , even if the 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 ...
... possibility of new futures where the fates of human beings and of the environment are no longer separate concerns. The New World of this study, then, is also the specific historical phe- nomenon of the broad cross-cultural space of the ...
... possibility of renewal, as is the case with Walcott's second Adam. Their nature is neither a sign of the Eternal Garden nor the inevitable victim of human destruction. It becomes a sign of an always dying present that paradoxically ...
... possibility of its end. Gary Snyder shares this hope that poetry can serve to recycle an an- cient human memory of our belonging in the natural world, but he is also aware of poetry's failings in this regard. Significantly for my ...
... possibility of membership in the Ancient World of Turtle Island. If Walt Whitman were with us today, he might well give his heart to the new native and bioregionalist movement with as much hope (and perhaps hopelessness) as he gave to ...
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