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Overview"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?—I point,"" asserted the aphorism. ""That’s what I do."" To point, the project integrates a wide range of interdisciplinary ideas—including biosemiotics, fractals, phi, trauma theory, the Mandelbrot Set, hyperobjects, meditative chants, Goethe’s morphology, Ramanujan’s summation, a spiderweb’s sonic properties, and Thoreau’s sense of the plant-like burgeoning force of an Atom—in order to open up multiple trajectories. In this context, the volume foregrounds the insights of poets/storytellers including Hillman, Snyder, Anzaldúa, EEC, okpik, Whitman, Dickinson, Gladding, Melville, Morrison, and Toomer, for they are most attentive to that liminal moment when the vibratory hum in language, and in the cosmos, turns kinetic. As this volume draws on a wide range of writers from many backgrounds, it allows the myriad voices to engage with one another across differences in race, gender, and ethnicity. These writers show us how, to echo Dickinson, the ""Freight / Of a delivered Syllable - "" can split and how the energy unleashed came from, and points us back toward, the energy (un)making the forms of Gaia. The starting point for discussing the energy of a poem can no longer begin with the human; rather, Holding on explores how the poem’s energy is but a sliver of a hyperobject ""massively distributed"" throughout the cosmos—a sage energy that brings forth form." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aaron MoePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780367173753ISBN 10: 0367173751 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 11 February 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on EEC’s Name and on Citing the Poetry of Dickinson and Whitman Prelude Part I: Origins; or, ""the bud of the bud"" The ""turn / ing;edge,of / life"": An Introduction Chapter 1: Protean Energy; or, The Squeeze & the Turn in Moby-Dick Chapter 2: Biosemiotics and Jody Gladding’s Translations from Bark Beetle Chapter 3: Vibrational Poiesis of Insects and Arachnids Chapter 4: ""Electrons / swoon in the sword fern"": Plants, Seeds, and Brenda Hillman’s Thoreauvian Attentiveness Part II: Energy Unleashed Chapter 5: The ""worship of kinesis"" in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath Chapter 6: Machines, Protean Mimicry, and the Organic Energy of Writing Technologies Chapter 7: ""plant Magic dust"": A Look at the ""Making obsession"" Chapter 8: Holding on Chapter 9: The Squeeze of Trauma: ""protean being"" & 500 Years of Pressure Part III: E = mc2, the Fractal Cosmos, and the Poem Chapter 10: Mathematics and the Protean Sublime Chapter 11: Protean Energy as Hyperobject: Language and the Cosmos Chapter 12: Gaia, the Atom, and the Poem Protean Poiesis: An Afterword Bibliography Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationAaron M. Moe is an assistant professor of English and Environmental Studies at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. in English from Washington State University. His work on poetics, zoopoetics, and ecocriticism has appeared in several journals including ISLE, Journal of Ecocriticism, Humanimalia, and the Walt Whitman Quarterly as well as book chapters in Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics, The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, and The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions. In 2014, his Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry became a crucial step in the unfolding exploration of the energy behind the forms of poiesis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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