The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults

by Joyelle McSweeney

Book Overview

In The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults , poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of Art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media; hosts "strange meetings" of authors, texts, and artworks across the boundaries of genre, period, and nation; and examines such epiphenomena as translation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472052411
• ISBN13: 9780472052417
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.1"