Kaia Sand's Remember to Wave (2010) and Albert Saijo's Woodrat Flat (2015) were two books I was proud to have published as editor of Tinfish. And they have wonderful affinities, as Gavin shows.
In the reflections that follow, I briefly graze the work of Albert Saijo
and Kaia Sand, two poets of place. I also offer a small glimpse into my
own poetic practice in connection with environmental justice organizing
and the profound necessity of breath. As an ecocritic, I am interested
in the strategies poets employ to expand the terrain of environmental
politics by doing away with unhelpful divisions, whether disciplinary,
methodological, or based in genre. Expansive poetic practices can
activate a collectivizing element—an uncommon sense—that opens into
alliance-building and solidarity.
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