Poetry and the Anthropocene by Sam Solnick - 9781138597457

Taylor & Francis

Poetry and the AnthropoceneEcology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry\nAuthor(s): Sam Solnick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138597457, 978-1138597457\nSynopsis\nThis book asks what it means to write poetry in and about the Anthropocene, the name given to a geological epoch where humans have a global ecological impact. Combining critical approaches such as ecocriticism and posthumanism with close reading and archival research, it argues that the Anthropocene requires poetry and the humanities to find new ways of thinking about unfamiliar spatial and temporal scales, about how we approach the metaphors and discourses of the sciences, and about the role of those processes and materials that confound humans attempts to control or even conceptualise them.\n\nPoetry and the Anthropocene draws on the work of a series of poets from across the political and poetic spectrum, analysing how .