Forrest Gander: Poetry, Translation, Ecology

Description:

Listening to a resonant voice in the field of contemporary ecopoetry and ecopoetics

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"Forrest Gander: Poetry, Translation, Ecology, edited by Robert Baker, is a spectacular celebratory event. It is profoundly expansive, intended at once to both unravel and reveal the immense complexities of Forrest Gander's poetic strata. These fascinating contributions by scholars, translators, and poets, generously shed light on the intensity, vulnerability, and acute porosity of Gander's singular creative acts. Gander's work offers us the possibility of living inside his text in a way that defies eco-hierarchy. As the South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon notes about her own poetry: 'Inside my text, I make the grave of poetry live like a real grave. I make the grave that tastes like milk as birth and death. The place where melons ripen.' Gander's great art also lies 'where melons ripen.'"