American Short Verse and Micro-Ecologies, 1860 to the Present

在学术和大众话语中，气候变化常常被想象得如此之大，以至于挑战了概念化。这个项目试图通过探索诗歌，特别是非常短的诗歌，如何帮助记录从后院到市政公园的微栖息地层面的环境破坏，将环境人文学科的争论从大规模转移到其他领域。美国短诗的历史——从单诗（单行诗）到十四行诗（14行诗）——可以追溯到19世纪60年代，它的吸引力与人为气候变化的加速同步上升。从艾米莉·狄金森到雷·阿曼特劳特，这一流派在美国诗人中的广泛应用创造了一个重要但尚未开发的生态知识宝库。将诗学和环境人文学科领域结合起来，我的项目将努力综合档案、文学批评和数字方法，以调查这一重要的诗歌语料库。

In both academic and popular discourses, climate change is often imagined at proportions so large it challenges conceptualisation. This project attempts to refocus debates in the environmental humanities away from the large-scale by exploring how poetry, especially very short verse, helps document environmental destruction at the level of the microhabitat--from backyards to municipal parks. The history of short verse in America--ranging from the monostich (a one-line poem) to the sonnet (14 lines)--can be traced back to the 1860s, its rising appeal paralleling the acceleration of anthropogenic climate change. The genre's wide use amongst American poets from Emily Dickinson to Rae Armantrout has created an important yet unexplored repository of ecological knowledge. Drawing together the fields of poetics and the environmental humanities, my project will endeavour to synthesise archival, literary critical, and digital methods in order to investigate this vital poetic corpus.