Imagining the Anthropocene Archive

Imagining the Anthropocene: Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem

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Language retains the rhetorical barrier between the wild and the civilized, the false dichotomy upon which humans have built cities and established nations. It’s within this partition that poetic genres like the Romantic lyric and the pastoral took root, ensconcing the obfuscations that Tommy Pico rails against.

Imagining the Anthropocene: Aracelis Girmay’s The Black Maria

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The Black Maria, Aracelis Girmay’s intricate epic of black survival, enraptures the reader in a gaze that looks simultaneously backward and forward, toward past and future that are impossible to see yet crucial to imagine.