Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on EEC’s Name and on Citing the Poetry of Dickinson and Whitman
Prelude
Part I: Origins; or, "the bud of the bud"
The "turn / ing;edge,of / life": An Introduction
Chapter 1: Protean Energy; or, The Squeeze & the Turn in Moby-Dick
Chapter 2: Biosemiotics and Jody Gladding’s Translations from Bark Beetle
Chapter 3: Vibrational Poiesis of Insects and Arachnids
Chapter 4: "Electrons / swoon in the sword fern": Plants, Seeds, and Brenda Hillman’s Thoreauvian Attentiveness
Part II: Energy Unleashed
Chapter 5: The "worship of kinesis" in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
Chapter 6: Machines, Protean Mimicry, and the Organic Energy of Writing Technologies
Chapter 7: "plant Magic dust": A Look at the "Making obsession"
Chapter 8: Holding on
Chapter 9: The Squeeze of Trauma: "protean being" & 500 Years of Pressure
Part III: E = mc2, the Fractal Cosmos, and the Poem
Chapter 10: Mathematics and the Protean Sublime
Chapter 11: Protean Energy as Hyperobject: Language and the Cosmos
Chapter 12: Gaia, the Atom, and the Poem
Protean Poiesis: An Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Aaron M. Moe is an assistant professor of English and Environmental Studies at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. in English from Washington State University. His work on poetics, zoopoetics, and ecocriticism has appeared in several journals including ISLE, Journal of Ecocriticism, Humanimalia, and the Walt Whitman Quarterly as well as book chapters in Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics, The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, and The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions. In 2014, his Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry became a crucial step in the unfolding exploration of the energy behind the forms of poiesis.
