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“Through a careful selection of writers and texts, The Anthropocene Lyric is a useful tool that can be used to explore the relationship between the human and more-than-human world within the context of the Anthropocene, where poetry has a firm foothold.” (Veronica Fibisan, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, September, 2017)
“Bristow’s book is a significant, insightful and lyrical contribution to ecopoetic studies on many important levels.” (Sue Edney, Green Letters - Studies in Ecocriticism, Vol. 21 (1), 2017)
“The gambit of Bristow’s book is that ecopoetry offers one path to a reconsideration of human positioning on earth. … This is an excellent book, and one that confirms Bristow’s place among the vanguard of ecopoetic theorists.” (Mark Dickinson, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol. 23 (3), November, 2016)
"The lyric is, as one scholar puts it, the genre of the other mind. Even when it is about an 'I,' the lyric is never strictly autobiographical, but rather reveals subjectivity as an entity in its own right. In this beautiful study, Thomas Bristow makes this concept massively wider and more physical. Bristow shows that lyric is a deeply ecological mode. Perhaps we had better start calling lyric the genre of the other affect: a non-egocentric, non-localized, more-than-human rippling of sensational energy. This book generously forms all kinds of thoughts and new terms for poetic phenomena we already feel. Bristow brilliantly shows how lyric pricks up its nonhuman ears, sensitized to the drastic geological shift of the Anthropocene and its Sixth Mass Extinction." Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University
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Book Title: The Anthropocene Lyric
Book Subtitle: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place
Authors: Tom Bristow
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137364753
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36474-6Published: 11 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36475-3Published: 11 June 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 139
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Environment, general, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History, Asian Literature