The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times

by Naomi Milthorpe

How do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and practices of austerity gardening in twentieth and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498570208
• ISBN13: 9781498570206
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"