Ecological Poetics; Or, Wallace Stevens's Birds

by Cary Wolfe

Book Overview

The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, 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 relationship between human and nonhuman? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe argues for a philosophical and theoretical reinvention of ecological poetics, using Stevens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022668797X
• ISBN13: 9780226687971
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"