The Ascension of Sheep

Download or read book The Ascension of Sheep written by John Kinsella and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected in one place for the first time are poems that have appeared in chapbooks or other publications outside Australia, or that have are out of print. Kinsella's major poetic concerns have been how to write place without claiming place (he acknowledges he lives on stolen Aboriginal land), how to write of being part of many place-experiences at once, and how to write the biosphere with ecological and humanitarian justice in mind. Further, his poems consider how we might be regionally communal and internationally responsive at once, without ever succumbing to economic globalism: a mode of living he refers to as 'international regionalism'. Always attuned to the natural world, his activist poetry examines how humans respond to a world that they themselves have placed under pressure.