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Legibility John Kinsella

Legibility By John Kinsella

Legibility by John Kinsella


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This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest.

Legibility Summary

Legibility: An Antifascist Poetics by John Kinsella

This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest. A timely meditation from poet John Kinsella, the book focuses on participation in protest, demonstration and intervention on behalf of human rights activism, and writing and acting peacefully but persistently against tyranny. The book also examines how we make records and what we do with them, how we might use poetry to act or enact and/or to discuss such necessities and events. A book about community, human and animal rights and the way poetry can be used as a peaceful and decisive means of intervention in moment of public social and environmental crisis. Ultimately, it is a poetics against fascism with a focus on the well-being of the biosphere and all it contains.

About John Kinsella

John Kinsella is the author of over sixty books, including the poetry titles Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (2016) and Insomnia (2019; 2020), and the critical works Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism (2007), Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley (2010), Polysituatedness (2017) and Temporariness (with Russell West-Pavlov, 2018). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Australia.

Table of Contents

1. A Pacifist Antifa Poetics.- 2. Handwriting Protest.- 3. Marks.- 4. Privilege, Property, Opprobrium.- 5. Modes of Protest.- 6. Legibility of Journal Extracts January 2020 - followed by extracts from handwritten journal.- 7. Micro and Macro Aggressions and Social Contracts.- 8. Versions of Mallarme.- 9. Against Competition/Against Winning... and Consequence Theory.- 10. Note in Journal Extracts 2017-2020 - followed by extracts from handwritten journals.- 11. Palestine and Israel.- 12. On Injustice. On peace. On Justice. On Peace....- 13. Pandemic/s.- 14. Choice and Whose Rights We Are Talking About? Cruelty and Animal Rights... Justice, Genetics and Consensus.- 15. Empathy, Not 'Property'.- 16. 'Conclusion'.

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NGR9783030857448
9783030857448
3030857441
Legibility: An Antifascist Poetics by John Kinsella
New
Paperback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2023-06-09
215
N/A
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