The necropastoral : poetry, media, occults - McSweeney, Joyelle, 1976- (Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2015)
" 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, anachronism, and violence. Through readings of artists as diverse as Wilfred Owen, Andy Warhol, Harryette Mullen, Roberto Bolano, Aime Cesaire, and Georges Bataille, The Necropastoral shows by what strategies art persists amid lethal conditions as a spectacular, uncanny force"--
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Keywords: Poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Experimental poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Poetics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry