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03275aam a2200433 i 4500 001 5D0B7A14BC2911EAAC3CDF0297128E48 003 SILO 005 20200702010020 008 190815t20202020ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019035377 020 $a 022668783X 020 $a 9780226687834 020 $a 022668797X 020 $a 9780226687971 035 $a (OCoLC)1114270903 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3537 T4753 Z955 2020 100 1 $a Wolfe, Cary $e author. 245 10 $a Ecological poetics; or, Wallace Stevens's birds / $c Cary Wolfe. 246 30 $a Ecological poetics 246 30 $a Wallace Stevens's birds 264 1 $a Chicago : $b University of Chicago Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xxii, 215 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a An affair of places -- Reading Stevens, once more. Poems (and critics) of our climate ; "Like Seeing Fallen Brightly Away": a new theory for the Emerson/Stevens genealogy -- From epistemological to ecological poetics. "There Is No World": deconstruction, theoretical biology, and the creative universe ; "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same" -- "Farewell to an Idea": some later long poems. Scapes and spheres ; "Premetaphysical Pluralism": dwelling in the ordinary -- Coda: indirections, on the way . 520 $a "The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, robins, nightingales, jays, owls, peacocks, the "bird with the coppery, keen claws," a "parakeet of parakeets," a "widow's bird," and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us about the distance between human and non-human? In what ways can we read him as an ecological poet, and how would reading him this way change our idea of ecopoetics? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe reconceptualizes ecopoetics through a poet not often associated with the terms "ecology" and "environment." Stevens, Wolfe argues, is an ecological poet in a sense that reaches well beyond his poems' imagery. Stevens's poetry is well known for embodying the tension between a desire for "things as they are," without human mediation, and the supreme value of the imagination. Noting Stevens's refusal to resolve this tension, Wolfe shows how the poems reward study alongside theories of system and observation derived from a multitude of sources, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Niklas Luhmann. Stevens is ecopoetic in the sense that his places, worlds, and environments are generated by the life forms that inhabit them"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Stevens, Wallace, $d 1879-1955 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Ecocriticism. 650 0 $a Ecology in literature. 650 0 $a Nature in literature. 650 0 $a Birds in literature. 600 17 $a Stevens, Wallace, $d 1879-1955. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00040329 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780226688022 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717022619.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5D0B7A14BC2911EAAC3CDF0297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search