Better Nature

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Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781771663403

Much of the language that makes up <i>Better Nature</i>&mdash;the first poetry collection by writer and academic Fenn Stewart&mdash;is drawn from a diary that Walt Whitman wrote while travelling through Canada at the end of the nineteenth century.<br><br>But rather than waxing poetic about the untouched Great White North, Stewart inlays found materials (early settler archives, news stories, email spam, fundraising for environmental NGOs, and more) to present a unique view of Canada's "pioneering" attitude towards "wilderness"&mdash;one that considers deeper issues of the settler appropriation of Indigenous lands, the notion of terra nullius, and the strategies and techniques used to produce a "better nature" (that is, one that better serves the nation).