Louise Glück’s Poetics of Becoming, Survival as Abject: Rethinking Ethics of Ecopoetry
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This paper revisits Louise Glück’s 1992 book of poetry, Wild Iris, from an ecological perspective and examines the poet’s attempts to become ‘others’ in terms of survival as abject. It comes out of a desire to make connections between the close reading of Wild Iris and political ecology. In Wild Iris, Glück transforms the voice of the subject “I” into the voices of various plants, flowers, sunlight, etc. The return of so many silent and vulnerable existences, the radical transformation of the human persona into plants has been regarded as an interesting experiment in Glück’s poetic career, but its ecological interpretation has not garnered much critical attention yet. Some say Glück’s poetics of becoming is the externalization of the poet’s mood within the meditative verse tradition or a medium for some divine force beyond the human. To fill the critical gap, this paper, on the one hand, proposes that Wild Iris, as a form of companionship coming to terms with human mortality in the natural cycle of beings, restores ‘abject’ as the visible form in its lively vocalization of plants. On the other hand, it argues that Glück’s poetics of becoming, derived from self-centered consciousness after long stretches of silence with the body, is meaningful as a manifestation of the lyric subject recharging its communal voices beyond isolation. Inviting readers to rethink ethics of ecopoetry in the extended spectrum of degradation, death, and marginalization, Wild Iris, therefore, stands as an example of ecopoetry in a different way from the nature poetry of her era.
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This paper revisits Louise Glück’s 1992 book of poetry, Wild Iris, from an ecological perspective and examines the poet’s attempts to become ‘others’ in terms of survival as abject. It comes out of a desire to make connections between the close reading of Wild Iris and political ecology. In Wild Iris, Glück transforms the voice of the subject “I” into the voices of various plants, flowers, sunlight, etc. The return of so many silent and vulnerable existences, the radical transformation of the human persona into plants has been regarded as an interesting experiment in Glück’s poetic career, but its ecological interpretation has not garnered much critical attention yet. Some say Glück’s poetics of becoming is the externalization of the poet’s mood within the meditative verse tradition or a medium for some divine force beyond the human. To fill the critical gap, this paper, on the one hand, proposes that Wild Iris, as a form of companionship coming to terms with human mortality in the natural cycle of beings, restores ‘abject’ as the visible form in its lively vocalization of plants. On the other hand, it argues that Glück’s poetics of becoming, derived from self-centered consciousness after long stretches of silence with the body, is meaningful as a manifestation of the lyric subject recharging its communal voices beyond isolation. Inviting readers to rethink ethics of ecopoetry in the extended spectrum of degradation, death, and marginalization, Wild Iris, therefore, stands as an example of ecopoetry in a different way from the nature poetry of her era.
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