June 24, 2026
I read Prynne because nobody else would think, would dare, to put those words together.
Ben Philipps
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Evasive Species
On ecopoetry
Eco-confessionalism marshals the self-reflexivity of poetic language, its distance from everyday communication, to register commitments without reifying them, to critique the present without lapsing into fatalism about the future. Looking outward, to the desperate reality of our world, and inward, to its own lyric preconditions, this new poetry is learning how to speak, subtly and capaciously, about the biggest crisis in history.
