Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 New Black Aesthetics: Post–Civil Rights African American Poetry
- 2 Traditions of Innovation in Asian American Poetry
- 3 Locations of Contemporary Latina/o Poetry
- 4 Sovereign Poetics and Possibilities in Indigenous Poetry
- 5 Changing Topographies, New Feminisms, and Women Poets
- 6 The Nearly Baroque in Contemporary Poetry
- 7 Disability Aesthetics and Poetic Practice
- 8 Queer Poetry and Bioethics
- 9 Trauma and the Avant-Garde
- 10 Blockade Chants and Cloud-Nets: Terminal Poetics of the Anthropocene
- 11 Give Me Poems and Give Me Death: On the End of Slam(?)
- 12 Anti-capitalist Poetry
- 13 Of Poetry and Permanent War in the Twenty-First-Century
- 14 Poetry in the Program Era
- 15 The Future of Poetry Studies
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
- References
10 - Blockade Chants and Cloud-Nets: Terminal Poetics of the Anthropocene
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 New Black Aesthetics: Post–Civil Rights African American Poetry
- 2 Traditions of Innovation in Asian American Poetry
- 3 Locations of Contemporary Latina/o Poetry
- 4 Sovereign Poetics and Possibilities in Indigenous Poetry
- 5 Changing Topographies, New Feminisms, and Women Poets
- 6 The Nearly Baroque in Contemporary Poetry
- 7 Disability Aesthetics and Poetic Practice
- 8 Queer Poetry and Bioethics
- 9 Trauma and the Avant-Garde
- 10 Blockade Chants and Cloud-Nets: Terminal Poetics of the Anthropocene
- 11 Give Me Poems and Give Me Death: On the End of Slam(?)
- 12 Anti-capitalist Poetry
- 13 Of Poetry and Permanent War in the Twenty-First-Century
- 14 Poetry in the Program Era
- 15 The Future of Poetry Studies
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
- References
Summary
Poetry emerging under the sign of the Anthropocene must, like all cultural work, contend with the terminal horizon of climate change. New levels of social and environmental complexity open up the possibility for, and the necessity of, uncommon forms of solidarity, in resistance movements run through with insurmountable difference. Poetry that resonates with the chants of protests and, provoked by the indeterminate cloud architecture of digital networks, attempts to weave what cannot be woven, convokes these forms of solidarity while exposing the seams of difference. One important seam is a temporal difference between those for whom the Anthropocene harbors an imminent collective future and those for whom it names a long and already too present collective experience of oppression. In many respects, place rather than identity, site rather than form or figure, determine the trajectories of this writing. Discussing poetry by Juliana Spahr, Danez Smith, Stephen Collis, and Layli Long Soldier, this chapter sounds some of the key differences activating the uncommon solidarities of North American poetry in the emergent awareness of the Anthropocene.
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