“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, May 6, 2010

Ecology and Elegy


My essay “The Dark Ecology of Elegy” just came out in Karen Weisman's beautiful new Oxford Handbook of the Elegy. Amazing cover, and a treasure trove inside.

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