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 Bolaño, Aimé Césaire, and Georges Bataille, The Necropastoral shows by what strategies Art persists amid lethal conditions as a spectacular, uncanny force.
| ISBN: | 9780472072415 |
| Publication date: | 22nd December 2014 |
| Author: | Joyelle McSweeney |
| Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press an imprint of University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 187 pages |
| Series: | Poets on Poetry |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets |