B/RDS (Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry) (English Edition)

B/RDS (Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry) (English Edition)

B/RDS endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history: John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers the text of Birds of America as an archival cage. The author selectively erases words from the textual cage to reveal its ambiguity and the complex relationship between humanity and the other-than-human world. As the cage disappears, leaving a space for scarce, lyrical poems, birds break free, their voices inextricably entangled with ours.



Prose poems written in the author’s own words and prompted by the erasure process are also interspersed throughout the collection. These migratory poems, like ripples, trace the link between past and present and reveal the human-nature disconnect at the root cause of environmental and social problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic.



Along its five movements, B/RDS also explores how we can reimagine our relationship to environment through language within new frameworks of interconnectedness. Thus, as the collection resists the distinction between nature and culture on which traditional nature poetry relies, it also acts as an ecopoetic manifesto. It suggests that a critical, lyrical poetry could contribute to ecological awareness by singing humanity back within nature.

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Detalhes do produto

• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C5HX64TX
• Editora ‏ : ‎ University of Utah Press (28 abril 2023)
• Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglês
• Tamanho do arquivo ‏ : ‎ 3466 KB
• Leitura de texto ‏ : ‎ Não habilitado
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• X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Não habilitado
• Dicas de vocabulário ‏ : ‎ Não habilitado
• Número de páginas ‏ : ‎ 70 páginas

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