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Unframing Wordsworth’s Daffodils. A practical and theoretical poetry class
Even outside of environmental literature circles, William Wordsworth’s poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’, also commonly known as ‘Daffodils’, is widely recognised as ‘one of England’s most famous and most quintessentially Romantic poems’ (British Library). In 2007, local tourism officials of the Lake District even released a pop video and hip hop version to celebrate its…
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Queer relation and the landscape: animals, the neutral, and significant otherness
In this writerly contemplation of queer relation with animals and landscapes, Clare Patterson draws connections between sheep trapped in snow drifts, Clarice Lispector’s cockroach, Leslie Feinberg’s crow, and various “significant othernesses” that shape our lives and queer literature. 🏵 At my grandmother’s house, I slept in a small back bedroom, with one window that looked…
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t4t as a model of eco intimacy and kinship in Oliver Baez Bendorf’s “T4T”
The identity formation that happens through t4t intimacy and sex in Bendorf’s poem is an identity formation that also happens with and through nature.
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