Poetics for the more-than-human world / Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, Sarah Nolan, editors.
2021
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Title
Poetics for the more-than-human world / Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, Sarah Nolan, editors.
Cover Title
Poetics for the more-than-human world : an anthology of poetry and commentary
ISBN
9781952419560 (paperback)
1952419565 (paperback)
9781952419300 (hardcover)
1952419301 (hardcover)
1952419565 (paperback)
9781952419300 (hardcover)
1952419301 (hardcover)
Published
[New York] : Dispatches Editions, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
iii, 521 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Exhibited
2020-2021 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1224374966
Summary
An Anthology of ecology of ecologically oriented poetry and commentary by 140 contemporary writers from a wide range of bioregions, nations, and life situations who include the more-than-human world in their vision of accountability.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
Poetry
Steller's use of verbs when describing the sea cow, hunted to extinction within 27 years of its discovery by Europeans. De Bestiis Marinis, 1751
Italian tourism bureau draws up plans for the regeneration of the Cinque Terre landscape / Juana Adcock
Eavesdrop / Omar Al-Nakib
Pre-existing planes and fragments / Will Alexander
Finding
For
Ghost World
Whistle / Rae Armantrout
III
XII / Tacey M. Atsitty
Dead pregnant whale found with 48 pounds of plastic in stomach April 2, 2019 / Stacey Balkun
Drought / Joan Baranow
Frog Medley / Michael Basinski
redundant
crypto / Lesley Battler
The folk
Parnassus, the barren cleft
The flies / Jeffery Beam
Jump Circle / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Echolocation / Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Crickets and noise of grasses and perseids
Devil's coach horse beetle slowly through a moment of witness
May-flies unfinished / Sean Borodale
Ticking / Cindy Botha
Eglinton at 5 / Michael Boughn
Once and always
And you shall know us by our trash: an ecopoetics for the moon / John Bradley
A beetle / Marc Brightside
Practice has no sequel / Laynie Browne
Walking over ice to Valcour Island
Mikwaldam
The last stand / Joseph Bruchac
Hating Animals / Oded Carmeli
Luna / Catherine Carter, illustrated by Sara Method
35-Bromine
47-Silver
112-118 - the superheavy elements / Cara Chamberlain
Melting glaciers
Non-equation:
Sunnet / Jack Collom
The positions
near the belong of hammered deer / James Cook
from "The Writing of an Hour" / Brenda Coultas
Fall in big Cataloochee Valley: an ecology / Thomas Rain Crowe
Should I go back out there / Bradley David
In the midst of a flock
Owl eye
Silent pink moth / Deborah Davidovits
Inside my head
Seventh generation / Janine DeBaise
Live earth / Vivian Demuth
Heatwork
Hyperthermia
Receiver
Cognitive test, red faced / Adam Dickinson
Aesthetics
Scopaesthesia
Cold frozen January next comes in / Elizabeth Dodd
The sea whisperer / Lisa Fleck Dondiego
Prairie requiem / Edward Dougherty
Ecopoetics / Mark DuCharme
January from shepherd's calendar / Rachel Blau DuPlessis
friskies
the deep chrssstrum
for urban gardeners / Marcella Durand
29 Oct 18 / Daniel Eltringham
Extracts from Juniper Fuse
Chaos of the wise
The aurignacians have the floor
Dusk, Abri du Cro-Magnon, 1988, 7:45 P.M. / Clayton Eshleman
from and umbels: sound((ing))s too / Amy Evans Bauer
Sur
Render / Patricio Ferrari
Dead horse bay
Archives of winter / Bradly J. Fest
The ice hotel at Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
Artists' residency at Ii, Finland
Unreliable snowpack / Cheryl J. Fish
[The day lays down]
Pecans
Again, August / Ann Fisher-Wirth
Automation
The holocene (or the hollow scene?)
Squared / Rob Fontini
A Dickinson bestiary (a chorograph) / Elisabeth Frost, Cynthia Hogue, and Dianne Kornberg
Sachamama / Juan Carlos Galeano
Ballad of the little girl who invented the universe
An animal fat / David Greenspan
The grolar bear's ballad / Catherine Greenwood
Selected new texts on the Anthropocene: Letters and Leisure / Megan Grumbling
Three poems / Robert Head
Snakes / William Heyen
As if hearing heavy furniture moved on the floor above us
Day beginning with seeing the International Space Station and a full moon over the Gulf of Mexico and all its invisible fishes
(no wind, no rain) / Jane Hirshfield
What is it that these apparently unrelated, randomly selected examples have in common?
By whom? Of what? In which direction? / H. L. Hix
with / Marybeth Holleman
may the human animals / Angela Hume
Breathing consciousness breathing
Observation of wind / Brenda Iijima
To those who may come after / Kent Johnson
Fragments from Yellow Hook Notes / Pierre Joris
And so
With these words
Sweet white threads / George Kalamaras
Who's there? / Eliot Katz
The river never froze
Eclogue on decommissioning
The art of hurricanes / Lissa Kiernan
Selections from You Too Will See the Bird Jump
Texture
Texture 2
The architecture of time difference / Kim Kyung Ju, translated by Jake Levine and Soohyun Yang
Graphology window 12: Cousane Gap sweep backwards and forwards
Nine Inch Nails' Bad Witch with a ghosting of Liszt's Plural Dantes [plural canto VIIIs: Inferno] as I make Contact, thinking over implications
'No direct water contact activities' / John Kinsella
Dear white pine in my garden
Witch spring, isolation day 9 / Petra Kuppers
The Aspen path
Cliff Lake / Melissa Kwasny
When nature becomes obsolete
World book (A to Zygote)
Inadvertent criticality
before Fukushima / Patrick Lawler
Driving home from Belfast, into the crescent moon / Gary Lawless
The yellow tulip / Ruth Lepson
Seep considered
tenebraed to seepage
the road to seep road
seep in inveterate dislodge / Heller Levinson, with drawings by Linda Lynch
They all eat octopus
The chaos of dreaming life / Andrew Levy
Trilobrite
American amergin
A butterfly appears unexpectedly in a poem about September 11th / Anthony Lioi
Wasted land / Jady Liu
To die in Erie, Pennsylvania
Before all hell breaks loose
Sentenced to a night of playing the blues / George Looney
Chopping down a walnut tree / Marta López-Luaces
Earth / Jack Martin
From "Thirty-seven Auguries"
From Quincunxes / E.J. McAdams
To Burnley / Alick McCallum
Winter solstice
This body
((Dharma)) / Michael McClure
Locations/Echolocations
Pine + bay + snow / James McCorkle
Introduction
Four ways of looking at magpie - a most becoming bird
Every bone must find its fellow bone: A letter from C.W. Peale to Thomas Jefferson
Magpie rises coming down to earth / Thomas McGuire
Between the forest and the sea / Andrew Melrose & Jen Webb
Litany for change / Nancy Mercado
A thousand years after the wet sky / Julian Mithra
Prometheus WPN-114 felled
Notes on the existence of heffalumps / Dr Marcos Neroy
Selections from The Ink's Path / Bernard Noël, translated by Eléna Rivera
The earthquake flowers of Fukushima / Valery Oisteanu
Milkweed and thistle
Some newer tatters / Peter O'Leary
My life among the crows / John Olson
Jetsam
To a myrtle
A bedouin / António Osório, translated by Patricio Ferrari & Susan Margaret Brown
A poem where the tone shifts from Whitman to Ashbery
Ocean shores, Washington, August 2018
Funeral / Catherine Owen
narrative space
will & representation / Chris Pedler
Rings of fire
Chanting the waters / Craig Santos Perez
Monsters of the deep
micro
Point perilous / Frances Presley
old Human, new consciousness / Kristin Prevallet
Learning to love the Earth / Evan Pritchard
Pairs / Kester Reid
Having broken. Are. / Evelyn Reilly
Touch of Water
Untitled
In the field pastoral / Eléna Rivera
Lone pine, 7 o'clock / Mg Roberts
from Dear Dirtlings / Linda Russo
An Alfoxden soundscape
Seven reasons not to underestimate simple cells / Mark Rutter
Tamarind
Brush-tailed rock wallaby
excubitorium: place of vigil / John Charles Ryan
Congress Arthropodus
Plant lore
Eutheria / Jimmy Saekki
Kia toitu he kauri / Sam Sampson
Wolf Acrostic
Somehow / Andrew Schelling
"Reft from thee"
Play dead (a possum poem) (extracts) / Anthony Seidman
Arctos-tecture
Water lily
Capnomancy crow / Kelly Shepherd
Like Clockword
Vertigo
Jacob's Meadow / John Shoptaw
Ratsnake
Mongoose
Wagtail / Murali Sivaramakrishnan
Excerpts from "How to Make Words of Rubble" / Isabel Sobral Campos
The drunken spaceship 2 / André Spears
Micronesia / Stephanie Strickland
Salt Song
Doppler effect / Arthur Sze
Three Ravens Watch / Margo Taft Stever
from cut flowers
from Humberston to Tetney Lock 2013-2019
7-8 March 2013
29 March 2019 / Harriet Tarlo
Clear water renga / Brian Teare
some ode, odor
carbon sink
To the is-land / Orchid Tierney
Gum wrapper / Edwin Torres
20
22
24 / John Tritica
Audiology / Keith Tuma
Woman. Reef.
Meadow / Kathryn Weld
Monarch stage 2 / Laurie Wilcox-Meyer
Pangolin II / Morgan Grayce Willow
Evolution of a silhouette / Daniel Wolff
1
2 / Jeffrey Yang
Essays and Critical Responses
The Green abyss: A theory fiction / Natalie Cortez-Klossner
El Agua Vive!: visions of the real in the Amazon Region as seen through J.C. Galeano's poetry and collected tales / Alexis Finet
"An attentive engagement with nature": an appreciation of Harriet Tarlo's radical landscape poetry / Cynthia Hogue
Walking into "no future full": Brain Teare's Doomsday Days / Lynn Keller
Dwelling with the possible: lyric obscurity and embedded perception / Sharon Lattig
Eco/proprioception / George Quasha
Peter O'Leary's mycological audacity / Mark Scroggins
Pips from the pomegranate: Armenian Hayrēn in 18 morsels / Ravi Shankar
Ten questions on Birds of Tifft / Jonathan Skinner
Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Running Fence / Cole Swensen
On queer ecopoetics and the natures we cannot disavow / Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Entangling the world: the connective poetics of Juliana Spahr's "If You Were a Bluebird" / Pauw Vos
Three Approaches / Tyrone Williams
Acknowledgments
Contributor biographies.
Poetry
Steller's use of verbs when describing the sea cow, hunted to extinction within 27 years of its discovery by Europeans. De Bestiis Marinis, 1751
Italian tourism bureau draws up plans for the regeneration of the Cinque Terre landscape / Juana Adcock
Eavesdrop / Omar Al-Nakib
Pre-existing planes and fragments / Will Alexander
Finding
For
Ghost World
Whistle / Rae Armantrout
III
XII / Tacey M. Atsitty
Dead pregnant whale found with 48 pounds of plastic in stomach April 2, 2019 / Stacey Balkun
Drought / Joan Baranow
Frog Medley / Michael Basinski
redundant
crypto / Lesley Battler
The folk
Parnassus, the barren cleft
The flies / Jeffery Beam
Jump Circle / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Echolocation / Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Crickets and noise of grasses and perseids
Devil's coach horse beetle slowly through a moment of witness
May-flies unfinished / Sean Borodale
Ticking / Cindy Botha
Eglinton at 5 / Michael Boughn
Once and always
And you shall know us by our trash: an ecopoetics for the moon / John Bradley
A beetle / Marc Brightside
Practice has no sequel / Laynie Browne
Walking over ice to Valcour Island
Mikwaldam
The last stand / Joseph Bruchac
Hating Animals / Oded Carmeli
Luna / Catherine Carter, illustrated by Sara Method
35-Bromine
47-Silver
112-118 - the superheavy elements / Cara Chamberlain
Melting glaciers
Non-equation:
Sunnet / Jack Collom
The positions
near the belong of hammered deer / James Cook
from "The Writing of an Hour" / Brenda Coultas
Fall in big Cataloochee Valley: an ecology / Thomas Rain Crowe
Should I go back out there / Bradley David
In the midst of a flock
Owl eye
Silent pink moth / Deborah Davidovits
Inside my head
Seventh generation / Janine DeBaise
Live earth / Vivian Demuth
Heatwork
Hyperthermia
Receiver
Cognitive test, red faced / Adam Dickinson
Aesthetics
Scopaesthesia
Cold frozen January next comes in / Elizabeth Dodd
The sea whisperer / Lisa Fleck Dondiego
Prairie requiem / Edward Dougherty
Ecopoetics / Mark DuCharme
January from shepherd's calendar / Rachel Blau DuPlessis
friskies
the deep chrssstrum
for urban gardeners / Marcella Durand
29 Oct 18 / Daniel Eltringham
Extracts from Juniper Fuse
Chaos of the wise
The aurignacians have the floor
Dusk, Abri du Cro-Magnon, 1988, 7:45 P.M. / Clayton Eshleman
from and umbels: sound((ing))s too / Amy Evans Bauer
Sur
Render / Patricio Ferrari
Dead horse bay
Archives of winter / Bradly J. Fest
The ice hotel at Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
Artists' residency at Ii, Finland
Unreliable snowpack / Cheryl J. Fish
[The day lays down]
Pecans
Again, August / Ann Fisher-Wirth
Automation
The holocene (or the hollow scene?)
Squared / Rob Fontini
A Dickinson bestiary (a chorograph) / Elisabeth Frost, Cynthia Hogue, and Dianne Kornberg
Sachamama / Juan Carlos Galeano
Ballad of the little girl who invented the universe
An animal fat / David Greenspan
The grolar bear's ballad / Catherine Greenwood
Selected new texts on the Anthropocene: Letters and Leisure / Megan Grumbling
Three poems / Robert Head
Snakes / William Heyen
As if hearing heavy furniture moved on the floor above us
Day beginning with seeing the International Space Station and a full moon over the Gulf of Mexico and all its invisible fishes
(no wind, no rain) / Jane Hirshfield
What is it that these apparently unrelated, randomly selected examples have in common?
By whom? Of what? In which direction? / H. L. Hix
with / Marybeth Holleman
may the human animals / Angela Hume
Breathing consciousness breathing
Observation of wind / Brenda Iijima
To those who may come after / Kent Johnson
Fragments from Yellow Hook Notes / Pierre Joris
And so
With these words
Sweet white threads / George Kalamaras
Who's there? / Eliot Katz
The river never froze
Eclogue on decommissioning
The art of hurricanes / Lissa Kiernan
Selections from You Too Will See the Bird Jump
Texture
Texture 2
The architecture of time difference / Kim Kyung Ju, translated by Jake Levine and Soohyun Yang
Graphology window 12: Cousane Gap sweep backwards and forwards
Nine Inch Nails' Bad Witch with a ghosting of Liszt's Plural Dantes [plural canto VIIIs: Inferno] as I make Contact, thinking over implications
'No direct water contact activities' / John Kinsella
Dear white pine in my garden
Witch spring, isolation day 9 / Petra Kuppers
The Aspen path
Cliff Lake / Melissa Kwasny
When nature becomes obsolete
World book (A to Zygote)
Inadvertent criticality
before Fukushima / Patrick Lawler
Driving home from Belfast, into the crescent moon / Gary Lawless
The yellow tulip / Ruth Lepson
Seep considered
tenebraed to seepage
the road to seep road
seep in inveterate dislodge / Heller Levinson, with drawings by Linda Lynch
They all eat octopus
The chaos of dreaming life / Andrew Levy
Trilobrite
American amergin
A butterfly appears unexpectedly in a poem about September 11th / Anthony Lioi
Wasted land / Jady Liu
To die in Erie, Pennsylvania
Before all hell breaks loose
Sentenced to a night of playing the blues / George Looney
Chopping down a walnut tree / Marta López-Luaces
Earth / Jack Martin
From "Thirty-seven Auguries"
From Quincunxes / E.J. McAdams
To Burnley / Alick McCallum
Winter solstice
This body
((Dharma)) / Michael McClure
Locations/Echolocations
Pine + bay + snow / James McCorkle
Introduction
Four ways of looking at magpie - a most becoming bird
Every bone must find its fellow bone: A letter from C.W. Peale to Thomas Jefferson
Magpie rises coming down to earth / Thomas McGuire
Between the forest and the sea / Andrew Melrose & Jen Webb
Litany for change / Nancy Mercado
A thousand years after the wet sky / Julian Mithra
Prometheus WPN-114 felled
Notes on the existence of heffalumps / Dr Marcos Neroy
Selections from The Ink's Path / Bernard Noël, translated by Eléna Rivera
The earthquake flowers of Fukushima / Valery Oisteanu
Milkweed and thistle
Some newer tatters / Peter O'Leary
My life among the crows / John Olson
Jetsam
To a myrtle
A bedouin / António Osório, translated by Patricio Ferrari & Susan Margaret Brown
A poem where the tone shifts from Whitman to Ashbery
Ocean shores, Washington, August 2018
Funeral / Catherine Owen
narrative space
will & representation / Chris Pedler
Rings of fire
Chanting the waters / Craig Santos Perez
Monsters of the deep
micro
Point perilous / Frances Presley
old Human, new consciousness / Kristin Prevallet
Learning to love the Earth / Evan Pritchard
Pairs / Kester Reid
Having broken. Are. / Evelyn Reilly
Touch of Water
Untitled
In the field pastoral / Eléna Rivera
Lone pine, 7 o'clock / Mg Roberts
from Dear Dirtlings / Linda Russo
An Alfoxden soundscape
Seven reasons not to underestimate simple cells / Mark Rutter
Tamarind
Brush-tailed rock wallaby
excubitorium: place of vigil / John Charles Ryan
Congress Arthropodus
Plant lore
Eutheria / Jimmy Saekki
Kia toitu he kauri / Sam Sampson
Wolf Acrostic
Somehow / Andrew Schelling
"Reft from thee"
Play dead (a possum poem) (extracts) / Anthony Seidman
Arctos-tecture
Water lily
Capnomancy crow / Kelly Shepherd
Like Clockword
Vertigo
Jacob's Meadow / John Shoptaw
Ratsnake
Mongoose
Wagtail / Murali Sivaramakrishnan
Excerpts from "How to Make Words of Rubble" / Isabel Sobral Campos
The drunken spaceship 2 / André Spears
Micronesia / Stephanie Strickland
Salt Song
Doppler effect / Arthur Sze
Three Ravens Watch / Margo Taft Stever
from cut flowers
from Humberston to Tetney Lock 2013-2019
7-8 March 2013
29 March 2019 / Harriet Tarlo
Clear water renga / Brian Teare
some ode, odor
carbon sink
To the is-land / Orchid Tierney
Gum wrapper / Edwin Torres
20
22
24 / John Tritica
Audiology / Keith Tuma
Woman. Reef.
Meadow / Kathryn Weld
Monarch stage 2 / Laurie Wilcox-Meyer
Pangolin II / Morgan Grayce Willow
Evolution of a silhouette / Daniel Wolff
1
2 / Jeffrey Yang
Essays and Critical Responses
The Green abyss: A theory fiction / Natalie Cortez-Klossner
El Agua Vive!: visions of the real in the Amazon Region as seen through J.C. Galeano's poetry and collected tales / Alexis Finet
"An attentive engagement with nature": an appreciation of Harriet Tarlo's radical landscape poetry / Cynthia Hogue
Walking into "no future full": Brain Teare's Doomsday Days / Lynn Keller
Dwelling with the possible: lyric obscurity and embedded perception / Sharon Lattig
Eco/proprioception / George Quasha
Peter O'Leary's mycological audacity / Mark Scroggins
Pips from the pomegranate: Armenian Hayrēn in 18 morsels / Ravi Shankar
Ten questions on Birds of Tifft / Jonathan Skinner
Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Running Fence / Cole Swensen
On queer ecopoetics and the natures we cannot disavow / Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Entangling the world: the connective poetics of Juliana Spahr's "If You Were a Bluebird" / Pauw Vos
Three Approaches / Tyrone Williams
Acknowledgments
Contributor biographies.
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