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    Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene
    Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene
    Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene
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    Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene

    By Bonnie Blair O'toole

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    New vocabulary for a world on the brink

    The Anthropocene is a term proposed for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards) to highlight the role of humanity in the transformation of earth's environment globally, has become the subject of scholarship not only in the sciences, but also in the arts and humanities as well. Ecopoetics, a multidisciplinary approach that includes thinking and writing on poetics, science, and theory as well as emphasizing innovative approaches common to conceptual poetry, rose out of the late 20th-century awareness of ecology and concerns of environmental disaster.

    Collected from contributors including Brenda Hillman, Eileen Tabios, and Christopher Cokinos, and together a monument to human responsiveness and invention, Counter-Desecration is a book of ecopoetics that compiles terms—borrowed, invented, recast—that help configure or elaborate human engagement with place. There are no analogous volumes in the field of ecocriticism and ecopoetics. The individual entries, each a sketch or a notion, through some ecopoetic lens—anti-colonialism, bioregionalism, ecological (im)balance, indigeneity, resource extraction, extinction, habitat loss, environmental justice, queerness, attentiveness, sustainability—focus and configure the emerging relations and effects of the Anthropocene. Each entry is a work of art concerned with contemporary poetics and environmental justice backed with sound observation and scholarship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 23, 2018
    ISBN9780819578471
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