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.
Author(s): John Kinsella
Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 218
City: Cham
Ode to Disarmament
Contents
1 An Antifa Pacifist Poetics
2 Handwriting Protest
3 Marks
4 Privilege, Property, Oppression
5 Modes of Protest
Without Marching Bands
Fascists not Liking the Term ‘Fascist’?
Some Fascistic Tendencies of the ‘Yellow Jacket’ Movement
Being Legible Against Acts of Hate
Villanelle of the Grasses
6 Legibility of Journal Extracts Jan 2020—followed by Extracts from Handwritten Journal
7 Micro- and Macro-Aggressions and Social Contracts
8 Versions of Mallarmé
9 Against Competition/Against Winning… and ‘Consequence Theory’
10 Note on 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)
Bio Level 4
14 Choice and Whose Rights We Are Talking About? Cruelty and Animal Rights… Justice, Genetics and Consensus
Scanning Consensus
15 Empathy, not ‘Property’
16 Conclusion
CODA
Index
