Entanglement in Fir: Thinking Matter in Peter Larkin’s “praying // firs \\ attenuate”
Journal Title: Religions - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
This article reads Peter Larkin’s poem “praying // firs nn attenuate” (2014) as a way to think the divine in relation to the ecological as a mutual poetic giving. It suggests that the poem entangles the reader in a series of relational imaginings that complicates the modern commodification of the nonhuman and questions a secular fatigue with the divine. Through a Catholic metaphysics in which all things—human, nonhuman, holy—are entangled, Larkin’s religious ecology maps the way to horizons promising that which cannot yet be imagined. In an entangled, layered, rhythmic, and echoing poetic form, Larkin reveals the intimate relationship between plenitude and the attenuated, gift and scarcity.
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Emma Mason
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