Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books in various genres, most recently The Necropastoral, a critical work on Decadent ecopoetics, in the University of Michigan Poets on Poetry Series, and Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat, 2020), a poetry collection for which she won an Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a founding editor of the international press Action Books and teaches at Notre Dame.
Nonfiction
Summer 2023
A Flower that Refuses to Open: Toward a Decadent Ecopoetics
A specter is stalking ecopoetics — it is the specter of Decadence. To be sure, “decadence” is an almost exclusively pejorative term in Anglo-American poetics. From the point of view of commonly […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
Death Styles 1.8.21
On the common merganser, that clock-faced duck A black-bordered letter arrives from your mother I mean mother-me, the mother duck who rides on the river pulls up her hood to […]