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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Voros, Gyorgyi

Titel

Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning by Julia E. Daniel, and: The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World by Matthew Griffiths (review)

Ist Teil von

• The Wallace Stevens journal, 2020-10, Vol.44 (2), p.298-304

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Olmsted’s pastoral style, with rolling lawns, curving paths, and “calming water features” (51), competed with Wirth’s proclivities for more formal, geometric horticultural displays and exotic plantings derived from British and European gardens, most especially on display in the formal rose garden. The wild, imposing Passaic Falls in contrast to the mill-town layout provided Williams fodder for exploring his highly ambivalent relationship to Paterson, as expressed in his eponymous masterpiece, with its exploration of “the historical and economic pressures that resulted in both the physical shape of the city and the experiences of the working class living along the Passaic River” (88). Rainier in Washington state; the tentacles of the octopus are the arms of the glacier that, in Moore’s day, extended far down the slopes of the mountain. [...]she drives home the mediated nature of the Rainier experience in particular and national parks in general by deriding them as “wilderness museums,” “nature’s circus[es],” and “curiosity shows” (120–21) designed to “conform to public expectations of an American wilderness experience” for “emphatically urban animals” (123, 120). [...]in reading “An Octopus” and demonstrating how liberally Moore “borrowed”