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Widening Gyre: A Poetics of Ocean Plastics (2019)

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By focusing on contemporary experimental poetry that engages with ocean plastics, this essay explores the capacity of ecopoetics to make distinctive interventions in the environmental humanities, and in particular the blue humanities. It examines work by Stephen Collis, Adam Dickinson, and Evelyn Reilly to show how poetry's forms of juxtaposition, linkage, linguistic porosity, indeterminacy, and nonnarrative temporalities suggest fertile modes of cultural engagement with the more-than-human oceans. This poetry cultivates amplified modes of attention to more-than-human scales of space, time, agency, and modes of relation, and it performs highly material ways of understanding historical, economic, and aesthetic forces affecting the oceans.

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Article Stacy Alaimo (2019) Introduction: Science Studies and the Blue Humanities. Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (pp. 429-432). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Moira Paleari
Johnson, Matthew P.
Samyn, Jeanette
Shaw, Lytle
Jones, Brandon
Mentz, Steve
Concepts
Science and literature
Environmental humanities
Oceans and seas
Poetry and poetics
Science and art
Plastics; rubber; polymers
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Early modern
Modern
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Australia; New Zealand
Europe
China
India
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