Entanglement in Fir: Thinking Matter in Peter Larkin's praying // firs \ attenuate
This article reads Peter Larkin's poem praying // firs \ attenuate (2014) as a way to think the divine in relation to the ecological as a mutual poetic giving. It suggests that the poem entangles the reader in a series of relational imaginings that complicates the modern commodification of th...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-10 |
Further subjects: | B
Trees
B Peter Larkin B Poison B Scarcity B Entanglement B Poetry |
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Summary: | This article reads Peter Larkin's poem praying // firs \ attenuate (2014) as a way to think the divine in relation to the ecological as a mutual poetic giving. It suggests that the poem entangles the reader in a series of relational imaginings that complicates the modern commodification of the nonhuman and questions a secular fatigue with the divine. Through a Catholic metaphysics in which all thingshuman, nonhuman, holyare entangled, Larkin's religious ecology maps the way to horizons promising that which cannot yet be imagined. In an entangled, layered, rhythmic, and echoing poetic form, Larkin reveals the intimate relationship between plenitude and the attenuated, gift and scarcity. |
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ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel9010001 |