Anthropocene Poetics : Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction Hardback

by David Farrier

Part of the Posthumanities series

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How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time Â The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system and all life-forms that it supports.

The challenge it posesâ€”how to live in our present moment alongside deep pasts and futuresâ€”brings into sharp focus the importance of grasping the nature of our intimate relationship with geological time.

In Anthropocene Poetics, David Farrier shows how contemporary poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Evelyn Reilly, and Christian BÃ¶k, among others, provides us with frameworks for thinking about this uncanny sense of time. Looking at a diverse array of lyric and avant-garde poetry from three interrelated perspectivesâ€”the Anthropocene and the â€œmaterial turnâ€ in environmental philosophy; the Plantationocene and the role of global capitalism in environmental crisis; and the emergence of multispecies ethics and extinction studiesâ€”Farrier rethinks the environmental humanities from a literary critical perspective.

Anthropocene Poetics puts a concern with deep time at the center, defining a new poetics for thinking through humanityâ€™s role as geological agents, the devastation caused by resource extraction, and the looming extinction crisis.Â