![]() San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press. The ecocriticism reader: Landmarks in literary ecology. Literature and ecology: An experiment in ecocriticism. Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books. Can you dig it?: Science and technology in the 1970s. Big energy poets: Ecopoetry thinks climate change. Allen Ginsberg: Collected poems 1947-1997. Global warming: A very short introduction. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Theorizing material ecocriticism: A diptych. Imagining ecopoetics: An interview with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Evelyn Reilly, and Jonathan Skinner. Introduction: Literary studies in an age of environmental crisis. Can poetry save the earth?: A field guide to nature poems. Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956. Letter to Allen Ginsberg (September 6, 1945). Ecocide: A short history of the mass extinction of species. IN: Indiana University Press.īroswimmer, F. Bodily natures: Science, environment, and the material self. Their epiphanic poetics evokes one’s instantaneous awareness of the hazards of material overuse and of the insubstantial natures of these things through the human’s material objectification.Īlaimo, S. Ginsberg’s “Ballade of Poisons” and Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red” then serve as an agent to actualize epiphany in this present ecological precarity. ![]() Poetry as one literary genre becomes an agent of social change and an ecological epiphany in this present posthuman precarity. The study uses close reading method by examining ecological aspects in the poems and then contextualize these aspects within ecopoetic perspectives by referring to some notions such as material transcorporeality and its intrusion on human’s body. The purpose of the study is to highlight how these two poems polemicize the anthropogenic overuse of material and chemical products as ecocide that wreaks havoc on any life form. This study discusses Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Ballade of Poisons” and Adam Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red” as two poetic texts from different periods, the modern and contemporary ones. Despite the merit, these subterranean minerals in fact contain toxic particles that have detrimental impacts on any life form and the physical environment. This anthropogenic activity correlates with an overconsumption of material things such as fossil fuels and other earth minerals. Ecocide has been a classic anthropogenic phenomenon from time to time, It dated from the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century to the present post-industrial era of digital technology.
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