problematic
MARCELLA DURAND / THE ECOLOGY OF POETRY ecopoetics volume 2 I want to quarrel with this essay. I find this commentary on the problematic problematic: However, traditional Nature poetry, Ã la the human-subject meditating...
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“the poem is born dark”
Paul Celan, as quoted by Pierre Joris, translator: Regarding the darkness of the poem today, imagination and experience, experience and imagination let me think of a darkness of the poem qua poem, of a...
“cheer the market-useless”
Poets Without Products, Vanessa Place So from large Lulu-square type things with staples in the middle to letterpressed thick cream covers to words tossed from mouth to ear to this kind of mouth-to-mouth invigoration,...
stills
MATTHEW COOPERMAN Stills Ecopoetics volume 2, pages 56 and 57 These are called Stills. I’m not sure why, maybe that is a technical term. A loose form, starting with a topic defined in the...
“the blue heron stole a little book / of recipes”
JACK COLLOM 3-4-00, from blue heron & ibc ecopoetics volume 2, page 53 I enjoy reading Jack Collom. I find his work gentle, intriguing, childlike. I like the Blue Heron selections a lot. They...
invasions
SEHJAE CHUN / ZEBRA MUSSEL AND BULL FROG ecopoetics, volume 2, page 52 Aliens. And time. I appreciate this poem. The poet draws a comparison between the struggle to remove invasive species and the...
disembodied
SHERRY BRENNAN / FROM WINTER POEMS ecopoetics, volume 2, page 44 Mysteriousness. I read this poem several times – four or five times? Several sections opened to me. The cow whose name shall be...