

Delight! Despair! Annulet published my short critical spasm “Wendell Berry Peace Disintegrator Pistol.” Which I hope is part 1 in an arc re: climate crisis & po. There are gaps; it doesn’t go far enough. Most of what has been taught as ecopoetry needs to be let go. Here is a quote my friend Marty liked “somehow poetry, even in this moment of climate catastrophe, continues to mistake transcendent visions of empty rural space as something other than a conservative rehashing of one version of a settler-colonial organization of nature and society.” Looking forward to digging into this issue: Brandon Shimoda, Shira Dentz, Joyelle McSweeney, Janice Lee–and seeing what else. & thx to Alicia Wright for encouraging the thing proper after the initial pitch.
I like the quote.
And the article too.
Thanks, Tom. You are the wizard of this blog.