Legibility
An Antifascist Poetics
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Beschreibung
This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest. A timely meditation from poet John Kinsella, the book focuses on participation in protest, demonstration and intervention on behalf of human rights activism, and writing and acting peacefully but persistently against tyranny. The book also examines how we make records and what we do with them, how we might use poetry to act or enact and/or to discuss such necessities and events. A book about community, human and animal rights and the way poetry can be used as a peaceful and decisive means of intervention in moment of public social and environmental crisis. Ultimately, it is a poetics against fascism with a focus on the well-being of the biosphere and all it contains.
This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest. A timely meditation from poet John Kinsella, the book focuses on participation in protest, demonstration and intervention on behalf of human rights activism, and writing and acting peacefully but persistently against tyranny. The book also examines how we make records and what we do with them, how we might use poetry to act or enact and/or to discuss such necessities and events. A book about community, human and animal rights and the way poetry can be used as a peaceful and decisive means of intervention in moment of public social and environmental crisis. Ultimately, it is a poetics against fascism with a focus on the well-being of the biosphere and all it contains.
Provides a poetics viewpoint on the contemporary topics of antifascism, environmentalism, and human rights Advocates for the convergence of poetry and activism Takes a discursive approach to question the coherence and incoherence of literary and political expression
Autor*in
John Kinsella
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Literature and Human Rights poetics Literature and the Environment antifascism activism environmentalism language of protest
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“One of the most compelling aspects of the essays is indeed their unapologetic subjectivity. Kinsella is a ‘super-subject’ and his unashamedly political stance is refreshing ... . Indeed, the essays most grounded in Kinsella’s lived experience provide a firmer scaffolding from which to wage his dialectics. ... Kinsella makes a compelling case for language being both the site of oppression and for resisting that oppression.” (Verity Oswin, TEXT - Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Vol. 28 (1), April, 2024)
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“John Kinsella’s Legibility presents an impassioned and ethical claim for the politics of art-making and the artistry of political action. Through an array of discursive forms—poetry, philosophical discourse, critical readings of literary texts, agitprop salvos and rants and visually enthralling reproductions of the author’s hand-written manuscripts—Kinsella articulates an anti-fascist poetics that by its very nature must be at once ‘legible’ and ‘illegible.’ This is poetics at its best: an extended, critical thinking through of contemporary complexities that seeks not resolution, but further creative expression and new socio-aesthetic affects as the author insists again and again on the necessary convergence of poetry and activism.” (Stephen Collis, author of A History of the Theories of Rain (2021))
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