Dirty Modernism: Ecological Objects In American Poetry, Michael D. Sloane

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This dissertation examines how early-to-mid twentieth century American poetry is preoccupied with objects that unsettle the divide between nature and culture. Given the entanglement of these two domains, I argue that American modernism is “dirty.” This designation leads me to sketch what I call “dirty modernism,” which includes the registers of waste, energy, animality, raciality, and the sensual. Reading these registers, I turn to what I call “ecological objects,” or representations of how nature and culture come together, which includes trash, natural resources, inanimals, and tools. Through an ecocritical mode of analysis, I introduce dirty modernism with the Baroness Elsa …

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Two poems by Julie Joosten.

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Poetry by Cecily Nicholson.

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Poetry by Linda Russo.

Two Poems: "North" And "The Venus Flytrap", Souvankham Thammavongsa

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Poetry by Souvankham Thammavongsa.

Three Poems From "The Elder Project," Vernon School District 22, Brian Antoine, Yetko Brooke Bearshirt-Robins, John (Wilke) Louis, Lindsy Oppenheimer, Vicky Raphael, Lenaya Sampson

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Poetry by Vernon School District secondary students and their elders, in collaboration with The Elder Project organized by Wendy Morton and Sandra Lynxleg.

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Poetry by Kathleen Brown.

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An introduction to the poets whose work appears in The Goose for the first time in this issue.

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Poetry by Jordan Abel. This poem is composed from 91 public domain Western novels that are freely available on Project Gutenberg. In total, the source text is over 10,000 pages long and is authored by 20 different writers. When all of the novels were searched simultaneously, there were 41 instances of the phrase "wild life." The resulting poem provides a contextual space where the language of a single word or phrase can be read.

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Review of The Lease by Mathew Henderson.

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Review of Ocean by Sue Goyette and Timely Irreverence by Jay MillAr.

Brilliant Falls By John Terpstra And Placeholder By Charmaine Cadeau, Matthew Zantingh

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Review of Brilliant Falls by John Terpstra and placeholder by Charmaine Cadeau.

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Review of Everything, Now by Jessica Moore and Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain by Russell Thornton.

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