Overview
- Provides a poetics viewpoint on the contemporary topics of antifascism, environmentalism, and human rights
- Advocates for the convergence of poetry and activism
- Takes a discursive approach to question the coherence and incoherence of literary and political expression
Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest. A timely meditation from poet John Kinsella, the book focuses on participation in protest, demonstration and intervention on behalf of human rights activism, and writing and acting peacefully but persistently against tyranny. The book also examines how we make records and what we do with them, how we might use poetry to act or enact and/or to discuss such necessities and events. A book about community, human and animal rights and the way poetry can be used as a peaceful and decisive means of intervention in moment of public social and environmental crisis. Ultimately, it is a poetics against fascism with a focus on the well-being of the biosphere and all it contains.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Kinsella is the author of over sixty books, including the poetry titles Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (2016) and Insomnia (2019; 2020), and the critical works Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism (2007), Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley (2010), Polysituatedness (2017) and Temporariness (with Russell West-Pavlov, 2018). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legibility
Book Subtitle: An Antifascist Poetics
Authors: John Kinsella
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85742-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85741-7Published: 08 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85744-8Published: 09 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85742-4Published: 07 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 215
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Social Philosophy, Social History, Political Science