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Poetry from Spaceship Earth: Empire and Ecology in Post-1945 American Poetry

Poetry from Spaceship Earth: Empire and Ecology in Post-1945 American Poetry

Rahimtoola, Samia

Paperback

Series: Contemp North American Poetry

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 168597063X
ISBN13: 9781685970635
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

In the early decades of the postwar period, the planetary metaphor of spaceship Earth was everywhere in the West. It exerted its power on sites as various as Caribbean research stations, the shipping lanes of the U.S.-occupied Pacific, Palestinian refugee camps, and the internal colonies of segregated nations. At its heart was a new ideology and infrastructure of managing, administering, and rationalizing nature through which Western powers sought to maintain their grip on a decolonizing planet.

Poetry from Spaceship Earth retrieves a diverse array of postwar American poets--Robert Duncan, June Jordan, Joanne Kyger, Lorine Niedecker, and Charles Olson--who contested and cultivated alternatives to this emergent mode of environmentalism. By placing the major innovations of postwar poetry into conversation with environmental politics, Cold War science and technology studies, and postcolonial and Black studies, Samia Rahimtoola develops an original theoretical and historical account of the racial and colonial logics that underpin the supposedly neutral project of managing nature.

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