| Title:
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ACTIVIST POETICS
ANARCHY IN THE AVON VALLEY |
| By: |
John Kinsella, Niall Lucy (Editor), Niall Lucy |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£80.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846314690 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846314698 |
| Publisher: |
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 May, 2010 |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Description: |
A collection of essays that claim that poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills, in particular ecological damage and abuse. It includes explorations of anarchism, veganism, pacifism, and ecological poetics. |
| Synopsis: |
John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with - and often directly through - his creative and critical work, Kinsella is also a prominent activist. In this important collection of essays the vegan anarchist pacifist poet claims that poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills, in particular ecological damage and abuse. Kinsella builds on his earlier notion of 'linguistic disobedience' evolving out of civil disobedience, and critiques the figurative qualities of his poems in a context of resistance. The book includes explorations of anarchism, veganism, pacifism, and ecological poetics. For Kinsella all poetry is political and can be a call to action. |
| Illustrations: |
13 colour plates, 1 black & white plates, 1 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Liverpool University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |