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Green Green Green

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Green Green Green explores the complex symbolism of the colour green through a literary and ecological lens. Gillian Osborne examines how poets like Emily Dickinson and William Blake viewed green as a space of contrastsโ€”life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experienceโ€”while introducing a modern perspective of the environment as both vital and vulnerable. The book blends essays, letters, and experiments to present nature writing that transcends typical adventure or argument, inviting readers to participate in ecological thinking as a shared act of homemaking.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in arts and culture, particularly those fascinated by poetry, nature writing, and contemporary ecological issues.

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The colour green is at the centre of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of haunting, irreconcilable opposites: life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experience.

In these essays, letters, repetitions, and experiments, poet and scholar Gillian Osborne adds a third, contemporary term: the environment as both vital and ailing. This is nature writing outside of adventure or argument, ecological thinking as a space of shared homemaking: reading, writing, and living in vicinity with others.

Green Green Green captures the essence of this delicate balance, drawing readers into a world where nature and human experience intertwine.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781643620329

Publisher: Nightboat Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 July 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Nightboat Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 152

About the Author

Gillian Osborne is a writer, educator, and aspirational gardener living in California. She is the co-editor of a collection of critical essays on modern and contemporary ecopoetics, and teaches for the Harvard Extension School and the Bard College Language & Thinking Program.

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