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21st Century North American Ecocriticism: The Contestation of the Post-Human Condition in Political Cactus Poems by Jonathan Skinner

ABSTRACT

In the North American poetic context, the exchange of a recognized ontology based on the concept of nature as an extra-human universe and its concomitant poetic epistemology are highlighted in contrast to the devastating results of modern capitalism. Besides this, ecocriticism’s place in the United States community of poets offers the possibility of generating a new concept of transnationalism. An antihegemonic and deconstructive metalanguage is born from ecocritical poetry as an expression of a possible paradigm whose goal is to serve as the vanguard to a confrontation with a majority sociopolitical current. An example scarcely studied or recognized in the environment of the Portuguese language, yet whose presence falls in a propitious moment for the expansion of studies on ecocritical literature at a transnational and global level, is the North American poet Jonathan Skinner. His first collection of poems, Political Cactus Poems (2005), reveals a novel, extra-human epistemology in which nature recovers its primacy by way of the expression of a natural ethic.

Keywords:
ecocriticism; Jonathan Skinner; American poetry

RESUMO

No contexto poético norte-americano, o intercâmbio da reconhecida ontologia com base no conceito da natureza como universo extra-humano e a sua concomitante epistemologia na poética realça-se como contraste aos devastadores resultados do capitalismo atual. Além disso, o lugar da ecocrítica na comunidade de poetas dos Estados Unidos oferece uma possibilidade de gerir uma nova concepção do transnacionalismo. Nasce uma metalinguagem desconstrutiva e anti-hegemónica na poesia ecocrítica como expressão de um possível paradigma cuja finalidade é de servir como vanguarda de confronto à corrente sociopolítica da maioria. Um exemplo pouco estudado e reconhecido no âmbito da língua portuguesa, mas cuja presença vem a calhar num momento propício para a expansão dos estudos da literatura ecocrítica a um patamar transnacional e global, é o poeta norte-americano Jonathan Skinner. A sua primeira coleção de poemas, Political Cactus Poems (2005), revela uma novidosa epistemologia extra-humana na qual a natureza recobra a sua primacia por meio da expressão duma ética natural.

Palavras Chaves:
ecocrítica; Jonathan Skinner; poesia americana

A notable variety of themes presents itself under this delineation, such as the study of the so-called “dark tourism” (CARRIGAN, 2014CARRIGAN, Anthony. Dark tourism and postcolonial studies: Critical intersections. Postcolonial Studies, v. 17, n. 3, p. 236-250, 2014. , p. 243) and the dialectic of poetic achievements related to the global crises caused by the fragmentation of the balance of nature in the Anthropocene, “[…] eco-poetics: the poetics of people sundered from a natural context, seeking return; strategies of compensation for cultural/linguistic pressures toward fragmentation” (ARNOTT et al., 2012ARNOTT, Joanne et al. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: On poetry and the environmental crisis. Capilano Review, Vancouver, v. 3, n. 16, p. 78-95, 2012. , p. 84). The exchange of a recognized ontology based on the concept of nature as an extra-human universe, and its concomitant poetic epistemology, are highlighted in contrast to the devastating results of modern capitalism.

Besides this, ecocriticism’s place in the United States community of poets offers the possibility of generating a new concept of transnationalism: “Nature and the biosphere when seeking to re-anchor American Studies within a more transnational and comparative framework” (BELLARSI, 2009BELLARSI, Franca. The challenges of nature and ecology. Comparative American Studies, London, v. 7, n. 2, p. 71-84, jun. 2009., p. 72). An anti-hegemonic and deconstructive metalanguage is born from eco-critical poetry, as an expression of a possible paradigm whose goal is to serve as the vanguard to a confrontation with a majority sociopolitical current, the ultimate expression of the Anthropocene’s false dominance:

[…] [e]cocritics have attacked anthropocentrism and the centrality it accords to man (more often so than to woman, tellingly enough) in the realm of creation - a central place repeatedly invoked over time to legitimize the subordination, abuse, and erasure of the non-human ‘other’. Along a broad spectrum ranging from less to more radical stances, ecocritics seek to displace anthropocentrism in favour of ecocentrism … and to substitute interdependence and exchange for subordination. If ecocriticism shares with postmodernism and post-structuralism some of their discontents with Modernity, ecocritics have, however, also felt compelled to distance themselves in part from some of the excesses and more extreme positions of postmodernism and deconstruction, as well as from the ethical relativism which these other critiques of the Modern may seem at times to condone in connection with the environment. (BELLARSI, 2009BELLARSI, Franca. The challenges of nature and ecology. Comparative American Studies, London, v. 7, n. 2, p. 71-84, jun. 2009., p. 74).

Thus, the desired goal, in principle, is conceived as the discovery, by way of poetry, of the relationship between humanity’s actions and the Earth, in which the results of those actions’ debris forge a rough landscape without a certain future:

Some of this poetry addresses conceptual challenges of the Anthropocene, such as the difficulty of grasping the scale of humankind’s planetary impact in relation to deep time, while some confronts material problems, such as the damage toxic anthropogenic chemicals and materials such as plastic do to human and environmental health (KELLER, 2017KELLER, Lynn. Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American poetry of the self-conscious anthropocene. Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2017. 304 p., p. 3).

In this, one may take stock of the recognition of humanity’s dialectic, and concomitant dependence, with nature, the latter being a whole universe built as extra-human nations:

[…] even if human communities continue to differ as to how they see the relationship between Nature and Culture and as to the kind of ecological imprint they leave upon their environment, no human society has historically existed completely independently from Nature, be it at the material level or the one of cultural representation. No societies or individuals can entirely extirpate themselves from the exchange between the human and the non-human (though, admittedly, the myriad forms taken by this exchange defy attempts at universal generalization). On the other hand, Nature actually turns out, in certain respects, to be one of the most ineluctably transnational realities of all.” (BELLARSI, 2009BELLARSI, Franca. The challenges of nature and ecology. Comparative American Studies, London, v. 7, n. 2, p. 71-84, jun. 2009., p. 72).

Perhaps these link with that patent binarism of human debris and the supposed purity of the natural world, as the evolution of ecocritical poetry in the United States would suggest:

The tenacity of Romantic perspectives on nature and the human relation to it fostered an ongoing sympathy among early ecocritics for the ideas and feelings expressed in poetry from that tradition. Environmental critics writing in the late decades of the twentieth century responded to what was perceived as the continually increasing separation of industrialized humanity from nature much as the Romantic poets themselves did nearly two centuries earlier: by lamenting that split and by treating poetry as a means of transcending it. (KELLER, 2017KELLER, Lynn. Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American poetry of the self-conscious anthropocene. Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2017. 304 p., p. 10).

In other words, poetry turned exclusively toward nature without delving into critical discourse, in a similar way to that which recent generations of poets in Portugal have in terms of the acerbic 21st Century sociopolitical discourse’s superficiality, is resolved through a palpable epistemological insufficiency (SIMON, 2011SIMON, Robert. Algumas novas vozes em Portugal: Um estudo de três poetas do século XXI. Portuguese Studies Review, v. 16, n. 2, p. 153-162, 2011.; KELLER, 2017KELLER, Lynn. Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American poetry of the self-conscious anthropocene. Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2017. 304 p.). It is under this teleological approach that many poets, beginning in the mid-Twentieth Century until today, dedicate their work to the opening of this relational problematic to a wider reading public, “[…] highly distinctive intervention into debates on the Anthropocene has vital relevance for the critical, ecopoetic discourse and the environmental humanities more broadly” (BLOOMFIELD, 2019BLOOMFIELD, Mandy. Review of: Lynn Keller, Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American poetry of the self-conscious anthropocene. Contemporary Literature, v. 60, n. 1, p. 132-137, abr. 2019., p. 132). At the root of this criticism of contemporary poetics, North American ecocritical poetry attempts to move toward an opposite position, toward a deepening of the contribution of natural symbolism through their primacy in relation to humanity.

A little studied or recognized example in the Portuguese Speaking World, yet whose presence happens at a propitious moment for the expansion of ecocritical literary studies on a transnational and global level, is the North American poet Jonathan Skinner. He was born in 1967 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, and earned his Doctorate in Literature at SUNY-Buffalo in 2005. After several years as a Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College, he took his current position as Professor of English and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. His first collection of poems, Political Cactus Poems (2005), reveals a novel, extra-human epistemology in which nature takes back its primacy through the expression of a nature-based ethos.

Critical approaches emphasize how Skinner’s work, according to his own elucidation to that respect, reveal that “[…] ecopoems may extend from the topologically referential to ethnological” (BELLARSI, 2009BELLARSI, Franca. The challenges of nature and ecology. Comparative American Studies, London, v. 7, n. 2, p. 71-84, jun. 2009., p. 79). The growth of ecological poetry, thus, happens at the margins, and even outside, of the limits imposed onto the notion of a trajectory focused exclusively on the environmental crisis. In a 2012 interview, Skinner explores the relationship of conceits that inform the reader on the notion of an ecocritical poetic:

Ecopoetics, as I understand it … is the pursuit of connections that reach beyond the human sphere of interest and also, I think, beyond the frame of the artwork or poem. At the same time, ecopoetics acknowledges disconnection-how we are both connected to and disconnected from the environment. Focused on crossing, ecopoetics explores the difficulties and opportunities at the boundary. (SKINNER, ano, p. 0 apudHUME, 2012SKINNER, Jonathan. Writing the dark side of travel. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 228 p., p. 754-755).

This ontological movement at the margin of recognized limitations in contemporary poetry surges onto the most visible level of poetic expression in Skinner’s work, as can be seen below.

A poem published separately from his collection inverts the discourse of sensitivity toward the criticism of capitalism, an essential, although not necessarily unique, element of contemporary Neo-Liberalism:

Ecotrigger Warning:

Please be advised: this poem
may contain references to
environmental destruction. It might
suggest inferiority of the Homo
sapiens. Although you may not feel
formally threatened by this poem
your concern for fellow humans
who could fear for their safety
prompting very public reactions
might upset you. Poetic forms
can be violent, traumatic: your life
beyond this poem, unexpected,
misunderstood, might be in peril.
Your learning could be disrupted.
If you have known colonialism
you might be triggered. This poem
is liable to make you squirm.
Very possibly, rising temperatures
will make us change our lives.

(SKINNER, 2015SKINNER, Jonathan. Ecotrigger Warning. Colorado Review, v. 42, n. 3, 195, 2015., p. 195).

The poem above begins imitating an official advisory message, a technique noted among postmodern poets as a deconstructive/denaturalizing element. Nonetheless, by way of sharp irony, it expresses various essential concepts of ecocritical discourse. It emphasizes ecological activism as a threat to power structures, not from a collective point of view, but rather from the perspective of the individual partner with an unquestionable human hegemony. From this moment, the poem, and specifically, the poetic word, becomes an explicit weapon against the dangers of the normalized destruction of the environment. In the final five verses, the idea of this process’ disruption attracts the historical notion of colonialism as a starting point for the dismantling of humanity’s own colonialism of the environment, presented in this and other poems in opposition to human presence. It is in this way that readers are able to comprehend the “human/non-human” dichotomy that the poetic voice establishes.

Among the various themes which pervade Skinner’s work, one may include the approach to human presence as an interference in the natural world. In the poem “Mined,” for example, there is a series of philosophical quests whose starting point is a natural or human object, which participates in this dialog in some form, the poetic voice explains that: “[...] ´the British consulate donates these / bedbugs to the next resident/alien or ancient, a vocal matzoh / to this world of trash and plastic / the squirrel in a window of light […]” (SKINNER, 2005SKINNER, Jonathan. Political cactus poems. Michigan: Palm Press, 2005. 108 p., p. 14). Human action becomes an infestation for this space’s future residents, and if we are to understand this space as a microcosm (which would be logical given the presence of this poetic technique throughout the collection), the metonymic relationship of the human being and the bedbug lays the groundwork for the symbols, charged with critical significance, that follow. Matzoh, a type of Jewish, unleavened bread, yet with strong and essential cultural and religious significance for the Jewish people, responds to human actions with a cry of warning to nature that humanity is attempting to close in and, thus, to be aware of the situation. It is resolved with a cry out to distance human societies as creators of “trash and plastic,” and as such, destructive.

A problematizing of humanity’s posture toward nature appears in the form of the theme of nature’s transformation into the abject following the human invasion of extra-human space. This imposition happens as much historically as in the present day, according to the collection’s poetic language.

As an example, the following verses trace the destructive, human trajectory from the perspective of nature: “I don’t see any hope/year after year, another ergot/epidemic in the colonies/if you remember me, spurned/by the worldly vanities / in an elegant but weather-/beaten frame - unlike Priam / I had no orifices. this is sick.” (SKINNER, 2005SKINNER, Jonathan. Political cactus poems. Michigan: Palm Press, 2005. 108 p., p. 12). These verses are a poetic expression of desperation brought about by the cycle of nature’s destruction. This grotesque act comes to its unhappy end through the actions and presence of humanity. The appearance of Priam, a mythological figure of the last king of Troy, killed by the son of Achilles, as a point of comparison with the environment’s suffering, is intensified by the lack of “orifices” for the release of a cry for help or a call for attention. The siege of nature, then, is realized in a sickening violation of the environment’s concrete, physical rights.

The subsequent step toward the description of the process of human appropriation of the natural world is presented via the criticism of humanity by the crisis brought on in the world outside of the human sphere. The poem “Niagara” illustrates this critical evolution:

measure wet splashing pool
frayed on the smooth
gestures inside impassive
catches, tributary shifts
stolen from the big cool
opposing forces at notched
meeting places, matter’s clatter
earth pummelled [sic] with life
some four odd billion years.

(SKINNER, 2005SKINNER, Jonathan. Political cactus poems. Michigan: Palm Press, 2005. 108 p., p. 27).

The appreciation of nature is palpable in the poem. The feeling of the water’s movement, the opening of a droplet onto the many ends to which the rocky space’s natural flow permits entry, is expressed. Many contrasts, in turn, exist and prosper in this primordial environment. The solidity of the rock orients and simultaneously rejects the power of the water’s agility. Life then imposes itself, described as an object that “pummelled” [sic] the planet’s surface, in contrast with the passiveness of space. These images of fluvial water engender an allegorical moment of life’s struggle for survival on a planet in perpetual change and decadence.

Nonetheless, another poem from the same section, “Wind”, reveals a possibility for rebirth in destruction, offered by the same nature that humanity looks to undermine:

Etretat
at eyrie in grasses
thrushes braced for night
look out as far as sea
to a world in prickly
connivance of wind and sprouts
pulled into tufts of air
what is liquid is a friction
aggregates compiled sound”.

(SKINNER, 2005SKINNER, Jonathan. Political cactus poems. Michigan: Palm Press, 2005. 108 p., p. 30).

The scene describes the cliff close to a town of the same name, Étretat. It should be noted that the physical space of the audacious escarpment shines with the white of alabaster. The wind, impervious to the geological evolution of the planet, is presented as an invisible liquid. A dialog is established between these symbols, mediated by the poetic voice. Thus, the contrast within the constructive and destructive waters is discovered, collaborating with the wind, which molds the environment. There is also the first mention, although indirect, of the cacti (“prickly / connivance of wind and sprouts”), which serve as an object of poetic study in the second part of the collection.

Anthropomorphism of the cacti is blatant in these poems. It also makes sense given Skinner’s predilection for personification as a bridge of understanding for human conceptions of (what could seem to the human consciousness as) an alien nature. For example, in “Ariocarpus Fissuratus” (SKINNER, 2005SKINNER, Jonathan. Political cactus poems. Michigan: Palm Press, 2005. 108 p., p. 55), whose name comes from the scientific name from a short, round cactus from which a sole, purple flower is borne, exemplifies this approach that, from the poetic point of view as expressed in this study, may only be classified as “transcultural”:

Aryan theories hold that
a carp gave birth to Adam
deeply wrinkled on the surface
like a toad with a ruff

his blunted tip rises into the sun
with white gunk between the buds
a fully bearded urethra
lips cracked, the stamens burgeon

In this poem, an evident anthropomorphizing rewrites the cactus into a pathetic being. Its sociopolitical identity is generated by false theories of supremacy, and the physical reality of the anthropomorphized plant is presented as “deeply wrinkled.” This decay did not happen due to time, as the poetic voice describes a scene of teleological birth, despite its supposed majesty, by its nature as a being born to reproduce, and the subsequent destruction of its environment, as evidenced in the poem’s final verses when the poetic voice explains that “the stamens burgeon.”

Skinner’s work, therefore, disproves the human contribution, revealing it to be a mere influx of negative interventions, while highlighting the notion of the natural pantheon as a complex web of relationships better described as transnational. Among the verses that support this transferential conceit, the following words from the poem “Second,” the poem which opens the collection, may be found: “[…] infinite scale, neither down nor up, the same / heard even as silence, made tangible / as a dormouse or a rock, a tick / conceivable but not by any vertebrate …” (SKINNER, 2005SKINNER, Jonathan. Political cactus poems. Michigan: Palm Press, 2005. 108 p., p. 3). A harmony exists, represented by an imperceptible, yet tangible, sound, in solid, living form (the rock is included as a living being in Skinner’s natural universe), a level of communication and communing between non-human entities.

On the macro-thematic level, in a 2012 collection, Writing the Dark Side of Travel, Skinner explains that his fascination with the destructive consequences of Modernity, and perhaps even humanity’s mere presence on the planet, has been commodified by the fixation with places and celebrated suffering, such as museums dedicated to the Holocaust:

Museums such as the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, involve survivors in their activities to personalize and dramatize the tourist’s visit experience. The living connection with the past literally brings home the horror and lends authenticity to the uneasy representation of the Holocaust […] reactions to Auschwitz and the Museum of Tolerance show how difficult it is to foster a balanced and respectful but disturbing representation of a darkness without causing offence or failing to elicit the appropriate response from the visitor. (SKINNER, 2012SKINNER, Jonathan. Writing the dark side of travel. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 228 p., p. 8-9).

In this sense, on the question of the world’s legibility of the part of humanity, interstitial and essential relationships whose core is viewed through the “[...] relationship between cultural representation and touristic memorialization” (CARRIGAN, 2014CARRIGAN, Anthony. Dark tourism and postcolonial studies: Critical intersections. Postcolonial Studies, v. 17, n. 3, p. 236-250, 2014. , p. 243-244) exist. In the rewriting of historical memory as a form of extreme knowledge, the making into abject of an individual’s experience with the unknown opens to the door to a phenomenology of the human abject:

[O] princípio de alteridade, tal como a identificação, e diz sobre as maneiras pelas quais o Ego converte o mundo exterior (a sociedade e a tecnologia, no caso do estudo) em percepção própria - a parir da qual se naturalizam certos dualismos (semelhante/dessemelhante ou igual/desigual, por exemplo). Em suma, identificando-se com tal realidade, ou não, todos os elementos constituintes da mesma são internalizados pela ‘célula individual’. Daí termos afirmado anteriormente que o corpo é tanto imagem exterior quanto interior de seu ‘entorno’. (FERREIRA; MACHADO; CAMINHA, 2016FERREIRA, Andréa Martins; MACHADO, Dina Maria; CAMINHA, Tibério. Um corpo tecnorgânico para a era da cibercultura: Efeitos sobre o sexo e o gênero. Trabalhos Em Lingüística Aplicada, v. 55, n. 2, p. 483-502, maio 2016., p. 487).

If we are to apply this notion to Skinner’s poetry, and in particular, to the thematic developed in the poems presented previously, in a wider, teleological sense one reaches the conclusion that Skinner’s poetry, in its own epistemological and ecocritical path, contests the imposition of brute, human force on the natural environment by way of the abjection of the human being, turning it into a mere antagonist symbol of our planet’s flora and fauna’s own transnationalism, this state being an amalgamation of the universal opposition of creation/destruction.

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  • ARNOTT, Joanne et al Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: On poetry and the environmental crisis. Capilano Review, Vancouver, v. 3, n. 16, p. 78-95, 2012.
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  • BLOOMFIELD, Mandy. Review of: Lynn Keller, Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American poetry of the self-conscious anthropocene. Contemporary Literature, v. 60, n. 1, p. 132-137, abr. 2019.
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  • 1
    A eco-poética: a poética dum povo separado do seu contexto natural, à procura do retorno; estratégias de compensação pelas pressões culturais/linguísticas até à fragmentação. (Tradução nossa).
  • 2
    A natureza e o bioesfera ao andar à busca de reancorar os estudos americanos dentro duma estrutura mais transnacional e comparada. (Tradução nossa).
  • 3
    Os críticos ecológicos já agrediram o antropomorfismo e a centralidade que privilegia ao homem (mais frequentemente do que à mulher, interesantemente) no âmbito da criação — um lugar central invocado repetidamente e ao longo para legitimizar a subordenação, o abuso, e o apagamento do outro “não-humano”. Através dum largo espetro que abrange posturas menos ou mais radicais, esses críticos procuram a deslocação do antropoformismo a favor do ecocentrismo […] e de substituir com a interdependência a subordinação. Se a ecocrítica compartilham com o pós-modernismo e o pós-estruturalismo algumas das suas inquietações para com a Modernidade, os próprios ecocríticos também se sentiram compelidos, no entanto, a distanciarem-se em parte de algo dos excessos a a política extremista do pós-modernismo e da deconstruição, e também dod relativismo ético que anteriores críticas do modernismo às vezes pareciam perdoar, em conexão com o meio ambiente. (Tradução nossa).
  • 4
    Algumas destas obras poéticas tratam dos desafios conceituais do antropocénico, como as dificuldades em of compreender o tamanho do impacto humano no planeta em relação ao tempo profundo, enquanto outras se confrontam com problemas materiais, como a danificação que materiais como o plástico, e substâncias químicas antropogénicas tóxicas, causam na saúde ambiental e humana. (Tradição nossa).
  • 5
    Se as comunidades humanas continuarem a divergir em como se apercebem da relação entre a natureza e a cultura, e quanto ao impacto ecológico que deixam no meio ambiente, ninhuma sociedade humana existiu historicamente em total escisão à natureza, quer ao nível material, quer ao da representação cultura. Nenhuma sociedade nem indivíduo pode-se extirpar totalmente do intercâmbio entre o humano e o não-humano (embora, admitidamente, a plétora de formas que este intercâmbio já tomou desfia as tentativas das generalizações universais). Por outro lado, a natureza, por sua vez, e em certos respetos, é uma mas realidades mais ineludivelmente transnacionais de todas. (Tradução nossa).
  • 6
    A tenacidade da perspetiva romântica acerca da natureza e a relação humana para com esta alimenta uma contínua simpatia entre os primeiros ecocríticos pelas ideias e os sentimentos expressos nessa tradição poética. Os críticos ambientais, a redatarem nas últimas décadas do séc. XX, respondiam àquilo que se percebia como a continuamente incrementada separação da humanidade industrializada à natureza, semelhante à reação dos românticos dois séculos antes: em lamentar a escisão e tratar a poesia como forma de trascendê-la. (Tradução nossa).
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    [...] uma intervenção notavelmente distinta nos debates sobre o antropóceno tem uma relevância essencial para o discurso crítico da ecopoesia e aos estudos humanísticos ambientais em termos mas abrangentes. (Tradução nossa).
  • 8
    Talvez se extenda do topologicamente referencial à lógica étnica
  • 9
    A ecopoesia, tal como eu a entendo … é a busca de vínculos alcança mais além da esfera de interesses humanos e também, penso eu, além do plano artístico ou poético. Ao mesmo tempo, a ecopoesia reconhece a desconexão—como somos ligados e desligados ao meio ambiente. Focalizado na encruzilhada, a ecopoesia explora as dificuldades e as oportunidades na margem. (SKINNER, ano, p. 0 apud HUME, 2012HUME, Angela. Imagining ecopoetics: An interview with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Evelyn Reilly, and Jonathan Skinner. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, v. 19, n. 4, p. 751-766, 2012. , p. 754-755, tradução nossa).
  • 10
    o consulado britânico doou estes / percevejos axs próximxs residentes / foránexs ou ancianxs, um matzoh vocal / a este mundo de lixo e plástico / o esquilo numa janela de luz (Tradução nossa).
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    Não vejo nenhuma esperança / ano trás ano, outra cravagem / epidemia nas colónias / se lembrares de mim, desprezado / pelas vaidades do mundo / numa marcação elegante mas batida / pelo tempo - não como Príamo / eu não tinha orifícios. isto é asqueroso. (Tradução nossa).
  • 12
    Medir uma piscina natural molhada desgasta nos gestos suaves dentro de safras impassíveis, mudanças tributárias roubadas do grande arrefecimento forças opostas em lugars de encontro entalhados, o alvoroço da matéria a terra esmagada com a vida há uns quantro mil milhões de anos
  • 13
    Falésia no ninho entre as ervas os tordos preparados para a noite olham tão longe como o mar até a um mundo em conivência espinhosa de vento e de brotos arrancados em tufos de ar aquilo que é líquido é uma frição conjuntos complilados de som
  • 14
    teorias arianas asseguram que a carpa deu a luz a Adão profundamente enrugada na superfície como um sapo com rufo a sua ponta embotada alçou até ao sol de gosma branca entre os brotos uma uretra completamente barbuda lábios partidos, os estames florescem
  • 15
    escala infinita, nem para cima nem para baio, os mesmos / ouvidos até no silência, feitos tengíveis / como um ratinho ou a pedra, o carrapato / concebível mas não por nenhum vertebrado (Tradução nossa).
  • 16
    Museus como o Museu da Tolerãncia em Los Angeles e o Museu do Holocausto em Washington, DC, involvem aos sobreviventes nas suas atividades em personalizar e dramatizar a experiência dx turista. O laço vivo com o passado traz literalmente a casa o terror e outorga autenticidade à representação inquieta do Holocausto […] as reações a Auschwitz e o Museu da Tolerância demonstram as dificuldades em nutrir uma representação equilibrada e respetosa e, por sua vez, perturbadora da sem ofender nem falhar em invocar as reações apropriadas the dxs visitantes. (Tradução nossa).
  • 17
    [...] a relação entre a representação cultural e a memorialização turística

Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    11 Aug 2023
  • Date of issue
    2023

History

  • Received
    27 Oct 2022
  • Accepted
    04 Jan 2023
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