Raw Materials
Lorange, Astrid
A major work in ecopoetics from Astrid Lorange, one of the most important contemporary Australian poets.RAW MATERIALS takes three of Australia's top selling commodity exports--gas, beef, and iron--as the point of departure for three interconnected poem-essays. Each poem-essay attempts a reading of the raw material as a figure for understanding a companion structure or system: gas is read alongside gender, beef alongside settler sovereignty, an...
