Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene
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New vocabulary for a world on the brink
The Anthropocene is a term proposed for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards) to highlight the role of humanity in the transformation of earth's environment globally, has become the subject of scholarship not only in the sciences, but also in the arts and humanities as well. Ecopoetics, a multidisciplinary approach that includes thinking and writing on poetics, science, and theory as well as emphasizing innovative approaches common to conceptual poetry, rose out of the late 20th-century awareness of ecology and concerns of environmental disaster.
Collected from contributors including Brenda Hillman, Eileen Tabios, and Christopher Cokinos, and together a monument to human responsiveness and invention, Counter-Desecration is a book of ecopoetics that compiles terms—borrowed, invented, recast—that help configure or elaborate human engagement with place. There are no analogous volumes in the field of ecocriticism and ecopoetics. The individual entries, each a sketch or a notion, through some ecopoetic lens—anti-colonialism, bioregionalism, ecological (im)balance, indigeneity, resource extraction, extinction, habitat loss, environmental justice, queerness, attentiveness, sustainability—focus and configure the emerging relations and effects of the Anthropocene. Each entry is a work of art concerned with contemporary poetics and environmental justice backed with sound observation and scholarship.
"Affirming the imagination's importance in effecting change, with marvelous invention this poets' glossary of terms responsive to the Anthropocene illuminates losses and violations, offers resources, inspires hope." —Lynn Keller, author of Recomposing Ecopoetics
- Title: Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene
- Authors: Linda Russo, Marthe Reed
- Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780819578471, 9780819578464, 0819578460, 0819578479
- Resource ID: LLS:9780819578471
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-03T19:53:42Z
MARTHE REED (1959-2018) was the author of five books, including Nights Reading, (em)bodied bliss, and the collaborative Pleth with j hastain. She was co-publisher and managing editor for Black Radish Books, and her poems have appeared in Jacket2, Tarpaulin Sky, and New American Writing, among other publications.
LINDA RUSSO is the author of three books of poetry, including Participant, winner of the Bessmilr Brigham Poets Prize, and To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light, a collection of lyrical essays. Her scholarly essays have appeared inAmong Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry and other edited collections. She teaches creative writing at Washington State University.