Forms of a WorldPub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282227.003.0002
W. Hunter
{"title":"Stolen Landscapes","authors":"W. Hunter","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823282227.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282227.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter shows how contemporary Irish poetry grapples with the politicized history of place, from the unfinished “ghost estates” to the recent monetization of water and the converted hotels used to keep asylum seekers in perpetual limbo. Readings of Irish poetry by Paula Meehan, Mary O’Malley, Seamus Heaney, and Sarah Clancy argue that the landscapes of contemporary Irish poetry are the indices of dispossession. The chapter then takes up poetic forms of the “block” and the “grid” to look more closely at the dispossessions produced by financialized capitalism, using as case studies British poet Keston Sutherland's Odes to TL61P (2013) and US poet Anne Boyer's \"The Animal Model of Inescapable Shock\" (2015). Finally, I turn to the literal displacement of forced migration, as well as its feminization and racialization, by reading the Iraqi poet Manal Al-Sheikh's prose poems.","PeriodicalId":353107,"journal":{"name":"Forms of a World","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115512929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Forms of a WorldPub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823282227.003.0005
W. Hunter
{"title":"The No-Prospect Poem","authors":"W. Hunter","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823282227.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282227.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that, to bring the Anthropocene into a specifically poetic language, poets have recalled and revised the tradition of the loco-descriptive poem and the prospect poem. J.H. Prynne, Kofi Awoonor, Natasha Trethewey, and Juliana Spahr use the hill as an imaginative location for staging the dilemmas of the putative “global citizen” examined at length in chapter two. Far from offering spectatorial mastery to the poet, however, the hill is transformed into the ground and habitation of precarious life. The hill thus makes visible an alternative trajectory of contemporary subjectivity in which the poem’s “I” emerges from and is shaped by the collective immiseration of global capitalism.","PeriodicalId":353107,"journal":{"name":"Forms of a World","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131904967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}