On The Poems of the Accidental Environmental Activist
2015-10-01
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On The Poems of the Accidental Environmental Activist
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2015-10-01
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Journal of Opinions, Ideas & Essays (JOIE)
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This essay offers a commentary on the four poems of Dr. Eville Gorham that accompany his memoir, “Reflecting on Life in a Deteriorating World: How Chance Made Me an Environmental Activist,” published elsewhere in this journal. Gorham’s poems are read here not only as complementing his development as a scientist but also for their literary merit as intriguing applications of a scientific perspective to nature poetry, one of the great traditions of the American and English lyric. His poems are associated here with the spare, imagistic mode of 20th-century modernism, particularly as defined by Ezra Pound and his followers, but also with the skeptical philosophical mode associated with such modernists as Wallace Stevens.
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Griffin, Edward. (2015). On The Poems of the Accidental Environmental Activist. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200576.
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