Earth Poetics: Literature and Climate Change

This course will examine how poetic forms of attention can offer a different sense of the shifting temporalities of change in the age of the Anthropocene, allowing us to stretch our range of perception to non-monumental rhythms that may be at play below the thresholds of human perception, but also the vast swaths of geologic time that may supersede them. We will address how literary texts can help us develop our understanding of various kinds of environmental change by attending to the material entanglements between nature and culture.