{"id":10895,"date":"2013-09-25T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=10895"},"modified":"2013-09-25T10:33:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:33:39","slug":"james-sherrys-oops-environmental-poetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/james-sherrys-oops-environmental-poetics\/","title":{"rendered":"James Sherry’s Oops! Environmental Poetics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Oops!\"<\/a>Back in Brooklyn, where the “rentr\u00e9e” is much less hectic & thus much more pleasurable than in Paris… thus, first local fall pleasure, the event, two evenings ago, at Poisson Rouge for James Sherry’s new book Oops! Environmental Poetics <\/em>published by Blaze VOX (you can buy it here<\/a>). James read an extract from what looks like (well, sounded like) an excellent statement on ecopoetics \u00a0\u2014 actually I prefer his term, environmental poetics \u2014 which I hope will appear somewhere soon. Meanwhile I’ve started into Oops!<\/em> & have already come across & been seduced by a word\/concept new to me: tagmosis<\/strong>, which James gets from Stephen Jay Gould (“Discrete skeletal units are known as tagma. The process of fusion is called Tagmosis”) & extends to his own field of endeavor, thus: “Discrete structural units of poetry are known as prosody. The process of fusion of prosodic units is known as writing.” Thus writing as tagmosis, and indeed the book underhand very much such an act as it fuses essay, science, poetry, politics, ecology. Below, what the publisher & the blurbistas have to say about a book I recommend most highly:<\/p>\n

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Oops! Environmental Poetics<\/b><\/p>\n

Oops! Environmental Poetics<\/i>\u00a0proposes that the cause of global warming is desire. We already have the technology to arrest climate change. We have the political systems to implement social transformation. But we lack the will to adopt a more sustainable future. In a linked series of essays and poems,\u00a0Oops!<\/i>\u00a0shows how changing our perspective on the biosphere links human thought<\/i>\u00a0to the actions we need to survive.\u00a0Oops!<\/i>\u00a0engages an activist poetics that is both in our interest and within our grasp.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

For all of the talk of globalism by the chattering classes, it is worth keeping in mind that there are just two global systems: capital and the biosphere. Every response to either is inescapably particularized by its location. The stresses of such imbalance are what move the world, that locomotive sans engineer heading straight for the chasm.
\nTen years before September 11, James Sherry\u2019s\u00a0Our Nuclear Heritage\u00a0<\/i>foresaw \u2013 with stunning clarity\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the interactions between world politics & human culture in the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0Century. Now\u00a0Oops!\u00a0<\/i>extends that vision perhaps even to the end of the human experiment. Far more than a Cassandra for the new millennium, Sherry\u2019s vision has deepened over the decades, offering analysis & strategies we would be wise to heed.Poetry is risk\u00a0<\/i><\/b>\u2013\u00a0or else!<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/i>How ironic that the closest thing we have now to a Benjamin or Adorno should be someone who has worked at the intersection of computing & finance just across the street from the late, lamented CBGBs\u00a0all these years.<\/p>\n

\u2014Ron Silliman, author of\u00a0The Alphabet<\/i><\/p>\n

James Sherry takes Nature as his subject and finds Natures.\u00a0\u00a0 He pulls us from the corny green landscape and awakens the savannah.<\/p>\n

\u2013Jesse Ausubel, Director, Program for the Human Environment,\u00a0The Rockefeller University<\/p>\n

What poetry can change is the\u00a0will<\/i>\u00a0to change. James Sherry finds \u201creal correspondence\u201d between poetry\u2019s conditional truths and the great\u00a0out there,\u00a0<\/i>and he definitively places poetry at the center of our being-in-ecology. For a beautifully detailed understanding of poetry\u2019s possibilities in apprehending the deep bonds, niches and connections of us-we-there-them-where-here, read\u00a0Oops!<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u2013Marcella Durand, author of\u00a0Traffic & Weather<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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