Geopoetics in Practice

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This breakthrough book examines dynamic intersections of poetics and geography. Gathering the essays of an international cohort whose work converges at the crossroads of poetics and the material world, Geopoetics in Practice offers insights into poetry, place, ecology, and writing the world through a critical-creative geographic lens. This collection approaches geopoetics as a practice by bringing together contemporary geographers, poets, and artists who contribute their research, methodologies, and creative writing. The 24 chapters, divided into the sections “Documenting,” “Reading,” and “Intervening,” poetically engage discourses about space, power, difference, and landscape, as well as about human, non-human, and more-than-human relationships with Earth. Key explorations of this edited volume include how poets engage with geographical phenomena through poetry and how geographers use creativity to explore space, place, and environment. This book makes a major contribution to the geohumanities and creative geographies by presenting geopoetics as a practice that compels its agents to take action. It will appeal to academics and students in the fields of creative writing, literature, geography, and the environmental and spatial humanities, as well as to readers from outside of the academy interested in where poetry and place overlap. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of table List of figures Preface Introduction: geopoetics as route­finding Part I Documenting 1 Bodies belong to the world: on place, visuality, and vulnerability 2 A cosmology of nibi: picto-­poetics and palimpsest in Anishinaabeg watery geographies 3 Terma: a dialogue 4 All visuals have sound: the verbalization of geography and the sound of landscape 5 Karankawa Carancahua Carancagua Karankaway: centering Indigenous presence in Southeast Texas 6 Geopoetics of Intime and ( SUND ): performing geochronology in the North Atlantic 7 Seismic, or topogorgical, poetry 8 rout/e Part II Reading 9 Lyric geography 10 Ekphrastic poetry as method 11 The topopoetics of dwelling as preservation in Lorine Niedecker’s Paean to place 12 Poking holes in the colonial canoe: creative writing as intervention in a 19th-century travel writing narrative 13 Thukela Poswayo’s poetry of dwelling 14 Islote poetics: Notes from minor outlying islands 15 The unbending of the faculties: learning from Frederick Law Olmsted 16 Borne­away: tracing a gendered dispossession by accumulation Part III Intervening 17 The limits and promise of urbopoetics: washpark, collaboration, and pedestrian practice 18 Geopoetics as collaborative encounter: performing poetic political ecologies of the Colorado River 19 Negro­Mountain­Wolves/notes on region 20 Hurricane poetics and crip psychogeographies 21 Geopoetics, via Germany 22 Indigenous Pacific Islander geopoetics 23 Agitating a Copper Lyre; or, geolyricism for the age of digital reproduction 24 The poetic lexicon of waste: from asarotos oikos (A) to flowers (F) Contributor biographies Acknowledgments Index