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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1. VerfasserIn: Mason, Emma 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Jahr: 2018, Band: 9, Heft: 1, Seiten: 1-10
weitere Schlagwörter:B Trees
B Gift
B Peter Larkin
B Scarcity
B Entanglement
B Poetry
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Zusammenfassung: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 things—human, nonhuman, holy—are 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.
ISSN:2077-1444
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel9010001