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At the Edges of Unmeeting: Geometries of Sea and Land in Marianne Moore’s Seascapes

At the Edges of Unmeeting: Geometries of Sea and Land in Marianne Moore’s Seascapes This article theorizes the edge between the land and the sea in Marianne Moore’s poetry and in Jeff Wall’s photograph “The Flooded Grave.” For these artists, the edge is constituted as an array of fluctuating temporal rhythms created by living organisms and dynamic abiotic elements, such as changing tides and the rocky or sandy substrates that make up the geological formation of the coastline. The edge appears in a number of Moore’s poems, including “The Fish,” which depicts the intertidal zone populated by injured “crow-blue mussel-shells,” “ink- / bespattered jelly fish,” and sea-stars, which resemble “pink / rice-grains.” Wall’s photograph, in turn, portrays a transposition between an aquatic and a terrestrial environment by placing an intertidal pool filled with star fish and sea anemones into the rectangular space of a grave. This article reads such moments as experiments in the textured edges of displacement. In these instances of intertidal encounter, organisms find themselves in unlikely configurations of space and time as a consequence of geophysical and ecological redistributions associated with effects of climate change. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

At the Edges of Unmeeting: Geometries of Sea and Land in Marianne Moore’s Seascapes

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This article theorizes the edge between the land and the sea in Marianne Moore’s poetry and in Jeff Wall’s photograph “The Flooded Grave.” For these artists, the edge is constituted as an array of fluctuating temporal rhythms created by living organisms and dynamic abiotic elements, such as changing tides and the rocky or sandy substrates that make up the geological formation of the coastline. The edge appears in a number of Moore’s poems, including “The Fish,” which depicts the intertidal zone populated by injured “crow-blue mussel-shells,” “ink- / bespattered jelly fish,” and sea-stars, which resemble “pink / rice-grains.” Wall’s photograph, in turn, portrays a transposition between an aquatic and a terrestrial environment by placing an intertidal pool filled with star fish and sea anemones into the rectangular space of a grave. This article reads such moments as experiments in the textured edges of displacement. In these instances of intertidal encounter, organisms find themselves in unlikely configurations of space and time as a consequence of geophysical and ecological redistributions associated with effects of climate change.

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Comparative Literature – Duke University Press

Published: Jun 1, 2021

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    Chakrabarty, Dipesh
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    Costello, Bonnie
  • Submarine Futures of the Anthropocene
    Deloughrey, Elizabeth
  • Foreword: Sym-chthonic Tentacular Worldings: An SF Story for the Crochet Coral Reef
    Haraway, Donna Wertheim, Margaret Wertheim, Christine
  • Fingeryeyes: Impressions of Cup Corals
    Hayward, Eva
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    Koenig, Sarah
  • Conservation Status of North American Birds in the Face of Future Climate Change
    Langham, Gary M. Schuetz, Justin G. Distler, Trisha Soykan, Candan U. Wilsey, Chad
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    Moore, Marianne Tomlinson, Charles
  • Biology laboratory notebook
    Moore, Marianne
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    Rail, Jean-François
  • Marianne Moore’s ‘Imperious Ox, Imperial Dish’ and the Poetry of the Natural World
    Schulze, Robin G.
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    Steinberg, Philip Peters, Kimberley
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