Overview

Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment. James Sherry accomplishes this task with a network model of connectivity that scales from the individual to social to environmental practices. Selfie demonstrates how parts of speech, metaphor, and syntax extend bidirectionally from the writer to the world and from the writer inward to identities that promote sustainable practices. Selfie shows how connections in the biosphere scale up from operating within the body, to social structures, to the networks that science has identified for all life. The book urges readers to construct plural identifications rather than essential claims of identity in support of environmental diversity.

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Author:   James Sherry
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
ISBN:  

9789811948725

ISBN 10:   9811948720
Pages:   347
Publication Date:   28 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Multidirectional Writing.- Chapter 2: The Particles.- Chapter 3: Nouns and Things: Changing Their Climate.- Chapter 4: Verb Solutions Adapt.- Chapter 5: Borderlands: Am I I &They? Knowing Without Or.- Chapter 6: Syntax or How I Become What I Seem.- Chapter 7: Social Groups Scale: Identities & Connections.- Part 2: Perspectives on Combining.- Chapter 8: Social Syntax.- Chapter 9: How Can Culture Change Habitat? .- Chapter 10: Groups Build Social Syntax.- Chapter 11: Some Structures of Syntax—Parataxis & Hypotaxis.- Chapter 12: Scalable Syntax: Poetry Model of the Biosphere.- Chapter 13: The Anthropocene: Ecosystems & Time Frames.- Chapter 14: Networks of Metaphor.- Part 3: Connections Below Form in Poetry and Biology.- Chapter 15: Environmental Identities.- Chapter 16: Environmental Autobiography.- Chapter 17: Social Syntax II: Linkages & Connectors.- Chapter 18: Identity’s Constructive and Connective Ecosystem.- Chapter 19: The Condition & Hierarchy ofIdentification.- Chapter 20: Impact of Text & Environment on Another Self.

Reviews

“James Sherry’s newest critical study … is a fascinating read for poets and anyone who cares about eco-poetics, eco-criticism, and the role of poetry within a world assailed by the effects of global warming. … The text fittingly plays itself in many styles-incorporating abstracts, summary, argumentation, bullet points, diagrams, poetry from a wide range of sources, note-form italicized text, as well as world of examples and clarifications, switching easily between the serious, the playful … .” (Abigail Ardelle Zammit, Poetry International, poetryinternationalonline.com, 2022)

Author Information

James Sherry is the author of 14 books of poetry and prose, most recently The Oligarch: Rewriting Machiavelli’s The Prince for Our Time and the poetry book Entangled Bank. Since 1976, he has edited Roof Books, publishing more than 200 titles of seminal works of language writing, flarf, conceptual poetry, new narrative, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation in 1977, producing over 10,000 performance events in New York City.

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