An exploration of poetry as an expression of biology
Presents an ecopoetics and a theory of art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, Joyelle McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media; hosts "strange meetings” of authors, texts, and artworks across the boundaries of genre, period, and nation; and examines such epiphenomena as translation, anachronism, and violence.