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What Nature
Poetry and critical essays that grapple with the intersection of natural and cultural crises.
In an age of record-breaking superstorms and environmental degradation, What Nature seeks -- through poetry and critical essays -- to make sense of how we interact with and are influenced by nature. This collection includes new work from such acclaimed poets as Natalie Diaz, winner of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose poetry often explores the consequences of global warming by creating overgrown, apocalyptic futures.
Shifting its focus from what has already been lost to what lies ahead, What Nature rejects the sentimentality of traditional nature poetry. Instead, its texts expose and resist the global iniquities that create large-scale human suffering, a world where climate change disproportionately affects the poorest communities. The intersection of natural and cultural crises -- like Standing Rock's fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan -- are confronted head on. These poems, lyric essays, and hybrid works grapple with political unrest, refugeeism, and resource exploitation, transforming the genre of ecopoetics.
Contributors include Natalie Diaz, Mark Doty, and Jorie Graham
In an age of record-breaking superstorms and environmental degradation, What Nature seeks -- through poetry and critical essays -- to make sense of how we interact with and are influenced by nature. This collection includes new work from such acclaimed poets as Natalie Diaz, winner of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose poetry often explores the consequences of global warming by creating overgrown, apocalyptic futures.
Shifting its focus from what has already been lost to what lies ahead, What Nature rejects the sentimentality of traditional nature poetry. Instead, its texts expose and resist the global iniquities that create large-scale human suffering, a world where climate change disproportionately affects the poorest communities. The intersection of natural and cultural crises -- like Standing Rock's fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan -- are confronted head on. These poems, lyric essays, and hybrid works grapple with political unrest, refugeeism, and resource exploitation, transforming the genre of ecopoetics.
Contributors include Natalie Diaz, Mark Doty, and Jorie Graham
- GenresPoetry
123 pages, Paperback
Published March 23, 2018
About the author
Timothy Donnelly
17 books27 followersTimothy Donnelly is the author of The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010) and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003). His work has been translated into German and Italian and has also appeared in numerous anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, and Poet, Poems, Poetry edited by Helen Vendler. A graduate of Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Princeton Universities, he is a poetry editor for Boston Review and teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.
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February 21, 2019
I picked this journal up in an amazing bookstore in Washington D.C., and it was one of my most treasured purchases of 2019. I will be revisiting this. I definitely recommend it for the nature poems. Phenomenal.
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