Imagining Ecopoetics: An Interview with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Evelyn Reilly, and Jonathan Skinner

Hume, Angela

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“…Two questions that this paper addresses are: first, how the two poems polemicize material things as anomaly and the causes of ecocide; second, how the polemics against the material things evoke one's epiphany in the midst of ecological precarity. In discussing these two questions, the analysis refers to some books and references about ecopoetry, material ecocriticism, transcorporeality, and ecocide (Alaimo 2010;Broswimmer 2002;Hume 2012;Iovino & Oppermann 2012, 2014Whyte 2020).…”

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Material Anomaly as Ecocide in Ginsberg’s “Ballade of Poisons” and Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red”: Epiphany in Ecological Precarity

Yulianto

2023

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Ecocide has been a classic anthropogenic phenomenon from time to time, It dated from the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century to the present post-industrial era of digital technology. This anthropogenic activity correlates with an overconsumption of material things such as fossil fuels and other earth minerals. Despite the merit, these subterranean minerals in fact contain toxic particles that have detrimental impacts on any life form and the physical environment. This study discusses Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Ballade of Poisons” and Adam Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red” as two poetic texts from different periods, the modern and contemporary ones. The purpose of the study is to highlight how these two poems polemicize the anthropogenic overuse of material and chemical products as ecocide that wreaks havoc on any life form. The study uses close reading method by examining ecological aspects in the poems and then contextualize these aspects within ecopoetic perspectives by referring to some notions such as material transcorporeality and its intrusion on human’s body. Poetry as one literary genre becomes an agent of social change and an ecological epiphany in this present posthuman precarity. Ginsberg’s “Ballade of Poisons” and Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red” then serve as an agent to actualize epiphany in this present ecological precarity. Their epiphanic poetics evokes one’s instantaneous awareness of the hazards of material overuse and of the insubstantial natures of these things through the human’s material objectification.

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Material Anomaly as Ecocide in Ginsberg’s “Ballade of Poisons” and Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red”: Epiphany in Ecological Precarity

Yulianto

2023

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Intimate Multitudes: Juliana Spahr’s Ecopoetics

Ergi̇n

2017

The Ecopoetics of Entanglement in Contemporary Turkish and American Literatures

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“Dirty Energy” and Ecological Performativity in Contemporary English Poems: Critiquing Petro Culture of the Anthropocene

Yulianto

Anam

2022

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Fossil fuels will always take command of human’s daily life. Despite being “dirty energy”, humans cannot jettison them since they are the mainstay for multipurpose energies. They are more dependable and accessible than renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar panel, and wind power. Even more so, in this present globalization the increasing scale of consumerism via digital technology and social media consumes the fuels. This petro-overconsumption of the fuels and their derivative products such as plastic certainly has some detrimental impacts: the more emission of carbon dioxide and other toxic particles to the atmosphere. Contemporary English poems are some works that critique the petro-overconsumption. A Canadian poet, Stephen Collis in his poem “Take Oil & Hum”; a Hawaiian poet, Craig Santos Peres in his poem about plastic, “The Age of Plastic”; and two Indonesian poets, AfrizalMalna in “petrol cupboard” and F. Aziz Manna in “Estuary” are the epitome of ecopoems that share this concern. With their performative interiorizing of petro-materiality, their depiction of petro-transcorporeality from one form into another, they articulate the polemics and impacts of non-renewable energy on human and nonhuman creatures as the issue of ecological precarity in the era of anthropocene.

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Imagining Ecopoetics: An Interview with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Evelyn Reilly, and Jonathan Skinner

Cited by 18 publications

References 1 publication

Material Anomaly as Ecocide in Ginsberg’s “Ballade of Poisons” and Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red”: Epiphany in Ecological Precarity

Material Anomaly as Ecocide in Ginsberg’s “Ballade of Poisons” and Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red”: Epiphany in Ecological Precarity

Intimate Multitudes: Juliana Spahr’s Ecopoetics

“Dirty Energy” and Ecological Performativity in Contemporary English Poems: Critiquing Petro Culture of the Anthropocene

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