This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From Kathy Acker to indigenous Australian poet Jack Davis, the book touches on other writers and theorists, but in essence is a hands-on 'praxis' book of poetic practice. The work extends John Kinsella's theory of 'international regionalism' and posits new ways of reading the relationship between place and individual, between individual and the natural environment, and how place occupies the person as much as the person occupies place. It provides alternative readings of writers through place and space, especially Australian writers, but also non-Australian. Further, close consideration is given to being of 'famine-migrant' Irish heritage and the complexities of 'returning'. A close-up examination of 'belonging' and exclusion is made on a day-to-day basis. The book offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by experiencing multiple places, developing a model of polyvalent belonging known as 'polysituatedness'. It works as a companion volume to Kinsella's earlier Manchester University Press critical work, Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape to Lyricism .
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Review
"Every so often a book comes along which makes you sit up and take notice, not just because the story is so compelling but also because it offers an entirely fresh approach based either on virgin evidence or on a new way of addressing the subject. Angela McCarthy and Tom Devine's account of the life and career of James Taylor is just such an enterprise and very good it is too. EL It is to the authors' credit that they have rescued him from unnecessary oblivion in this hugely enjoyable and expressive account of a life well lived." - Trevor Royle, The Herald
"This work [...] is extraordinarily timely, and capable of stirring fruitful, productive reflection and action on how our capacity and capability with language can affect and interact with our place in the natural and social environment, the ecosphere."
Stride Magazine
"The book at hand is 'a poetics', and I'd say at that quite an ambitious and far reaching one, but not just that, it is a 'hands-on praxis book of poetic practice'ELThis workEL is extraordinarily timely, and capable of stirring fruitful, productive reflection and action on how our capacity and capability with language can affect and interact with our place in the natural and social environment, the ecosphere." - Clark Allison, Strand Magazine
About the Author
John Kinsella is Professor of Literature and Sustainability at Curtin University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University

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Kinsella, John

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Angelaki humanities, Manchester, 2017

1, PT, 2017

2016

Memory of the World Librarian: Calamitous Annunciation

类型: 图书

丛书名: Angelaki Humanities

出版日期: 2017

出版社: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

页码: 449

摘要: ... constituted by multiple places, considering the relationshi

开本: 100

John Kinsella is one of the pre-eminent poets writing today; Polysituatedness provides a sequel to his critical work Disclosed Poetics. If offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by multiple places, considering the relationships that occur between place, individual and the natural environment. -- .

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