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Radiant Meditations Radiant Meditations
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‘One glimmering lattice of interdependence’ ‘One glimmering lattice of interdependence’
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Home, ‘a random matter’ Home, ‘a random matter’
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‘Buried in the flesh’ ‘Buried in the flesh’
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Encounters with the Wild Encounters with the Wild
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Re-attunement to the Continuum Re-attunement to the Continuum
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2 ‘Buried in the flesh’: Home, Embodiment and Interanimality in John Burnside’s Work
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Published:September 2019
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The chapter discusses the role and significance of concepts such as home, dwelling, language and the question of embodied Being in relation to John Burnside’s writing. Developed through the thinking of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty specifically, and phenomenological thinking more generally, but with reference to other modes of critical apprehension, the discussion expands the examinations of the idea of dwelling and the place of human animals within the living world (as part of an attempt to decentre the human), which constitute predominant themes in Burnside’s work, complicating the notion of ‘nature poetry’. The analysis focuses on the relation between human selfhood and the non-human world, Mitsein, or Being-with other animals, and the question of naming things. In this respect, this chapter provides not only a particular way of reading Burnside’s poetry, but also a more detailed investigation of the way in which the concept of dwelling relates to certain aspects of place, understood as a dynamic nexus of relationships, as well as the concept of the creaturely. It argues that these themes, together with the problem of language dominate Burnside’s poetic work.
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