Black Swan Song

Black Swan Song

Life and Work of a Wetland Writer

Giblett, Rod

University Press of America

07/2021

242

Mole

Inglês

9780761872788

15 a 20 dias

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Preface

I: Early to Later Life and Work





Born in Borneo
Brought up in Bible College
Shaped by Place and Work
Some Teachers Who Taught Me Something
A Most Homely House and Habitat
The Nexus: A Pro-Symbiotic, Anti-Fascist Ecology of Education
Farewell to Forrestdale
Climbing the Family Trees
My Thoreauvian Pilgrimage
Closing the Circles
The Way of Taoism
The Writer's Life
The Writer's Desk
Wading out of Wetlands
The Blue Angel and the Mountain Dragon
Up the Inner Passage
Tanked Streamed: A Tale of Illness, a Tale of Woe



II: Conversations in Conservation Counter-Theology: Twelve Minor Biblical Prophets and Twelve Major Environmental Apostles





Hosea and Paul Virilio, the Patron Saint of Grey Ecology
Joel and Rachel Carson, the Patron Saint of American Conservation
Amos and Aldo Leopold, the Patron Saint of Marshes
Obadiah and Judith Wright, the Patron Saint of Australian Conservation
Jonah and St Margaret, the Patron Saint of Marshy Motherhood
Micah and St George, the Patron Saint of England
Nahum and Raymond Williams, the Patron Saint of Ecocultural Studies
Habakkuk and St Francis, the Patron Saint of the Earth
Zephaniahand Seamus Heaney, the Patron Saint of Bogs
Haggaiand Henry David Thoreau, the Patron Saint of Swamps
Zechariah and Walter Benjamin, the Patron Saint of Cultural Studies
Malachi and John Muir, the Patron Saint of National Parks



III: More New Saints: Twelve Minor Environmental Apostles





John Clare: The Patron Saint of the Fens
Walt Whitman: The Singer of the Song of the Earth
Richard Jefferies: The Patron Saint of Being at Home on the Earth
H. P. Lovecraft: American Singer of the Song of the Bog
Lord Dunsany: The Singer of the Song of the Bog
Albert Howard: The Patron Saint of Soil Conservation
Elyne Mitchell: The Patron Saint of Australian Soil Conservation
Felix Guattari: The Patron Saint of Third Ecology
Rebecca Solnit: The Patron Saint of Progressive Politics
Glenn Albrecht: The Patron Saint of the Symbiocene
John Charles Ryan: The Patron Saint of Plants
Charles Massy: The Patron Saint of Regenerative Farming



Further Reading/Other Books and Book Chapters by Rod Giblett

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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activism;autobiography;conservation;eco-criticism;environmental politics;memoir;prophets;theology;wetland cultures