Disembodying and Reembodying the Poem as Act of Acknowledgment of Land Rights and a Rejection of “Property”: On Acts and Actioning of Environmentally Concerned Poetry

Abstract

The title of this piece is really an abstract in itself: “Disembodying and Re-embodying the Poem as Act of Acknowledgement of Land Rights and A Rejection of ‘Property’: On Acts and Actioning of Environmentally-concerned Poetry.” The author deletes themself to qualify their recognition that they should have no power over discussing land as it pertains to Indigenous people and that the nation-state is antithetical to justice and the restorative nature of poetry. Further, the implications for land in the poem and poem to the land are considered, as is the nature of the poem and its ability to move through space. Collaborative communalism and the imposition on language by colonial capital is also considered.