New pastoral
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Description
New Pastoral journeys through the altered states of the American West. Readers witness dream-fields at harvest time, watch humans become agro-industrial test subjects, and overhear an exchange of letters set in an alternate (?), [more] dystopian present. Fractured, fragmented, leaping, and stitched, the poems use disjuncture, within and/or between poems, to see with clarity and complexity a landscape that is increasingly all ecotone. In addition to environmental violence, this work explores disclosure and secrecy, intimacy and estrangement, voyeurism, political policing, and, inevitably, the mysteries of making art. Pastoral landscapes have often been compared to patchwork. Now, heavy with guilt, we walk a wounded quilt, searching, with little hope, for bandages.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2014
Agent
- Author (aut): Slinker, Nathan
- Thesis advisor (ths): Dubie Jr, Norman
- Committee member: Hummer, Terry
- Committee member: Ball, Sara
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University