{"product_id":"anthropocene-poetics-david-farrier-9781517906269","title":"Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction Volume 50","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system and all life-forms that it supports. The challenge it poses--how to live in our present moment alongside deep pasts and futures--brings into sharp focus the importance of grasping the nature of our intimate relationship with geological time. In \u003ci\u003eAnthropocene Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e, David Farrier shows how contemporary poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Evelyn Reilly, and Christian B k, among others, provides us with frameworks for thinking about this uncanny sense of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking at a diverse array of lyric and avant-garde poetry from three interrelated perspectives--the Anthropocene and the \"material turn\" in environmental philosophy; the Plantationocene and the role of global capitalism in environmental crisis; and the emergence of multispecies ethics and extinction studies--Farrier rethinks the environmental humanities from a literary critical perspective. \u003ci\u003eAnthropocene Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e puts a concern with deep time at the center, defining a new poetics for thinking through humanity's role as geological agents, the devastation caused by resource extraction, and the looming extinction crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Farrier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517906261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517906269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"David Farrier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940066164991,"sku":"9781517906269","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8927c119-c129-43d1-9413-d938d32675e4.jpg?v=1681445089","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anthropocene-poetics-david-farrier-9781517906269","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}