Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form - 9780367173753

Taylor & Francis

Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus demonstrates how a fractal imagination helps one hold the form of a poem within the reaches of Deep Time, and it explores the kinship between the hazy, liminal moment when Sound becomes Syllable and the hazy, liminal moment when the sage energy of the Atom made a leap toward the gaze of the first cell, to echo Merwin. Moe distills his methodology as follows: \""My work?\u2014I point,\"" asserted the aphorism. \""That\u2019s what I do.\"" To point, the project integrates a wide range of interdisciplinary ideas\u2014including biosemiotics, fractals, phi, trauma theory, the Mandelbrot Set, hyperobjects, meditative chants, Goethe\u2019s morphology, Ramanujan\u2019s summation, a spiderweb\u2019s sonic properties, and Thoreau\u2019s sense of the plant-like burgeoning force of an Atom\u2014in order to open up multiple trajectories. In this context, the volume foregrounds the insights of poets/storytellers including Hillman, Snyder, Anz.