This Compost

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This Compost is written by Jed Rasula and published by University of Georgia Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0820323667 (ISBN 10) and 9780820323664 (ISBN 13).

"Rasula begins by examining poets associated with Black Mountain College in the 1950s - Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan - and their successors. But This Compost extends to include earlier poets like Robinson Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Kenneth Rexroth, and Muriel Rukeyser, as well as Clayton Eshleman, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and other contemporary poets. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson also make appearances. Rasula draws this diverse group of poets together, uncovering how the past is a "compost" fertilizing the present. He looks at the heritage of ancient lore and the legacy of modern history and colonial violence as factors contributing to ecological imperatives in modern poetry."--BOOK JACKET.