Plenty

By Corinne Lee

Book Overview

Using Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass as a springboard, Corinne Lee's second book of poetry is an eco-epic that investigates and embodies the deterioration of America's environment due to industrial agriculture, fossil fuels, war, racism, and technology. Lee's book-length work draws upon a variety of poetic forms and histories--especially events in 1892, which included a surge in lynching in America and the beginning of our coup d' tat of Hawaii--to examine how modern technology facilitated the Holocaust, sustains America's racist prison industrial complex, fuels climate change, and ultimately underlies what has been called the Sixth Extinction. A daring and dazzling narrative of great originality, Plenty advocates a feminist ecobuddhist perspective: only by dismantling false hierarchies, especially those of patriarchal capitalism, are we able to recognize that all agents of environmental collapse are one with us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143108174
• ISBN13: 9780143108177
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"