John Kinsella

Polysituatedness (eBook, ePUB)

A poetics of displacement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From Kathy Acker to indigenous Australian poet Jack Davis, the book touches on other writers and theorists, but in essence is a hands-on 'praxis' book of poetic practice. The work extends John Kinsella's theory of 'international regionalism' and posits new ways of reading the relationship between place and individual, between individual and the natural environment, and how place occupies the person as much as the person occupies place. It provides alternative readings of writers through place and space, especially Australian writers, but also non-Australian. Further, close consideration is given to being of 'famine-migrant' Irish heritage and the complexities of 'returning'. A close-up examination of 'belonging' and exclusion is made on a day-to-day basis. The book offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by experiencing multiple places, developing a model of polyvalent belonging known as 'polysituatedness'. It works as a companion volume to Kinsella's earlier Manchester University Press critical work, Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape to Lyricism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David & Charles
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526113375
• Artikelnr.: 48025775

Autorenporträt

John Kinsella is the author of many books of poetry, fiction and criticism. He has also written for the stage. He is a frequent collaborator with other poets, critics, fictionalists, artists, musicians, labourers, activists and friends. Recent fiction includes the novels 'Lucida Intervalla' (UWAP, 2018) and Hollow Earth (Transit Lounge, 2019) and the collections of short fiction 'Old Growth' (Transit Lounge, 2017) and 'Pushing Back' (Transit Lounge, 2021); recent poetry includes 'Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems' (Picador, 2016), 'Open Door' (UWAP, 2018), 'Insomnia' (WW Norton, 2020) and 'Supervivid Depastoralism' (Vagabond, 2021); recent criticism includes 'Polysituatedness' (Manchester University Press, 2017), 'Temporariness' (with Russell West-Pavlov; Narr, 2019) and 'Beyond Ambiguity: tracing literary sites of activism' (Manchester University Press, 2021). Five Islands Press has just published his collection of 'Graphology drawing-poems, Saussure's Kaleidoscope' (2021).John Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Sustainability at Curtin University. But most relevantly, he is an anarchist-vegan-pacifist. Kinsella's activism against racism and bigotry began in his late teens when he was working on the first manifestation of his experimental novel, 'Morpheus'. He is a committed environmentalist.