@inbook{46c636e980b54374ae2897bb77858b43,
title = "What's the world but shine / and seem: Radical Kitsch and Mark Doty's Figurative Poetics",
abstract = "To discuss Mark Doty{\textquoteright}s poems, notoriously full of sequins and shimmer, might initially seem counter-intuitive to a discussion of dark ecology. However, this essay argues that Doty{\textquoteright}s decorative descriptive style, conveyed through his highly figurative poetics, can be considered in terms of Timothy Morton{\textquoteright}s concept of “radical kitsch” that is very much part of Morton{\textquoteright}s broader claims on dark ecology. Radical kitsch suggests a deliberately excessive representation of the environment that by being so excessive draws attention to itself and its failure to represent nature, thus foregrounding the otherness, or “non-identity” of the environment. Although relatively overlooked by ecocritics in comparison to other theories proposed in Ecology Without Nature, I will show how the concept of radical kitsch is illustrated by Doty{\textquoteright}s poetic emphasis on artifice to describe marine life. ",
author = "Isabel Galleymore",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
day = "15",
language = "English",
isbn = "1498528112",
series = "Ecocritical Theory and Practice",
publisher = "Lexington Books",
pages = "185",
booktitle = "Dark Nature",
}