Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection

ISBN-13: 9789811948695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 347 str.

James Sherry

Opis

Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment. James Sherry accomplishes this task with a network model of connectivity that scales from the individual to social to environmental practices. Selfie demonstrates how parts of speech, metaphor, and syntax extend bidirectionally from the writer to the world and from the writer inward to identities that promote sustainable practices. Selfie shows how connections in the biosphere scale up from operating within the body, to social structures, to the networks that science has identified for all life. The book urges readers to construct plural identifications rather than essential claims of identity in support of environmental diversity.

Recenzje

"James Sherry's newest critical study ... is a fascinating read for poets and anyone who cares about eco-poetics, eco-criticism, and the role of poetry within a world assailed by the effects of global warming. ... The text fittingly plays itself in many styles-incorporating abstracts, summary, argumentation, bullet points, diagrams, poetry from a wide range of sources, note-form italicized text, as well as world of examples and clarifications, switching easily between the serious, the playful ... ." (Abigail Ardelle Zammit, Poetry International, poetryinternationalonline.com, 2022)

Spis treści

Introduction

Part 1: Bidirectional Writing

The Particles

Nouns and Things: Changing Their Climate

Verb Solutions Adapt

Borderlands: Am I I &They? Knowing Without Or

Syntax or How I Become What I Seem

Social Groups Scale: Identities and Connections

Part 2: Perspectives on Combining

Social Syntax

How Quickly Can Culture Change Habitat?

Groups Build Social Syntax

Some Structures of Syntax—Parataxis & Hypotaxis

Scalable Syntax: Poetry Model of the Biosphere

The Anthropocene: Ecosystems and Time Frames

Networks of Metaphor

Part 3: Connections Beneath Form in Poetry and Biology

Social Syntax II: Linkages & Connectors

Identity’s Constructive and Connective Ecosystem

The Condition and Hierarchy of Identification

European Ecology

Impact of Text & Environment on Another Self

O autorze

James Sherry is the author of 14 books of poetry and prose, most recently The Oligarch: Rewriting Machiavelli’s The Prince for Our Time and the poetry book Entangled Bank. Since 1976, he has edited Roof Books, publishing more than 200 titles of seminal works of language writing, flarf, conceptual poetry, new narrative, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation in 1977, producing over 10,000 performance events in New York City.

Blurb

“A stunning range of psychic value not as doppelganger or estrangement, Selfie specifies poetic lingual experience in depth. These essays concentrate while operating at a higher plane of experience where the pulls and tensions of the poetic practitioner remain energetically magnified.”

–Will Alexander, US poet

“In this compelling, ambitious, vertiginous Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection, James Sherry does nothing less than offer operational guidelines for cooperative social adaptation to halt climate change through the aperture of the milieu he knows best: poetry.”

–Judith Goldman, Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo

“Not, as the tag would have it, a “thought experiment,” Selfie is thought experience. It’s personal, and only a person can extract a selfie from the aggregate bruise. In this context, to say “well done” is both a recommendation and a rueful glimpse of the challenges keening in global warming.”

—Jed Rasula, Professor, University of Georgia

Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment. James Sherry accomplishes this task with a network model of connectivity that scales from the individual to social to environmental practices. Selfie demonstrates how parts of speech, metaphor, and syntax extend bidirectionally from the writer to the world and from the writer inward to identities that promote sustainable practices. Selfie shows how connections in the biosphere scale up from operating within the body, to social structures, to the networks that science has identified for all life. The book urges readers to construct plural identifications rather than essential claims of identity in support of environmental diversity.

James Sherry is the author of 14 books of poetry and prose, most recently The Oligarch: Rewriting Machiavelli’s The Prince for Our Time and the poetry book Entangled Bank. Since 1976, he has edited Roof Books, publishing more than 200 titles of seminal works of language writing, flarf, conceptual poetry, new narrative, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation in 1977, producing over 10,000 performance events in New York City.