系列：现代与当代诗学
有先见之明的诗人如何想象生态和化身的创新研究
拉里·艾格纳（1927-1996）一生创作了数千首诗，尽管脑瘫造成了严重的身体限制。艾格纳只用右手的大拇指和食指，就发出了急促而丰富的语言洪流，参与了重要的通信，并在文学杂志和诗歌杂志上广泛发表。
虽然艾格纳在生态诗学出现之前就开始写作，但他的诗歌反映了他对科学写作和媒体的认真参与，包括雷切尔·卡森（Rachel Carson）开创性的《寂静的春天》。早在这种担忧成为道德责任之前，艾格纳就在撰写有关环境灾难和气候变化的文章。同样，艾格纳在探索残疾方面也走在了时代的前列。在新的千年里，残疾研究领域迅速扩大。艾格纳并不是一个公开的传记诗人，至少就他的身体局限而言，但他的诗大量地阐述了各种形式的化身的思想。
寻找事物的重量：拉里·艾格纳的《电子诗学》是对艾格纳诗歌的首次全面研究，涵盖了他从20世纪50年代开始的成熟作品到90年代最后一首诗歌的整个职业生涯。乔治·哈特（George Hart）记录了艾格纳的两个主要兴趣点的交叉点，以及它们的相互作用如何推动了他作为诗人评论家的作品——他的作品有很多关于生态和我们未来的体现。哈特认为艾格纳对残疾、生态和诗歌形式的重叠关注是不可分割的，并在这里创造了一个短语“ecrippoetics”来描述艾格纳的先见之明。
Finding the Weight of Things: Larry Eigner’s Ecrippoetics
Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetics
An innovative study of how a prescient poet imagined ecology and embodiment
Larry Eigner (1927–1996) wrote thousands of poems in his lifetime, despite profound physical limitations caused by cerebral palsy. Using only the thumb and index finger of his right hand, Eigner generated a torrent of urgent and rich language, participating in vital correspondences as well as publishing widely in literary magazines and poetry journals.
While Eigner wrote before the emergence of ecopoetics, his poetry reflected a serious engagement with scientific writing and media, including Rachel Carson’s seminal Silent Spring. Eigner was writing about environmental disasters and climate change long before such concerns took on a moral incumbency. Similarly, Eigner was ahead of his time in his exploration of disability. The field of disability studies has expanded rapidly in the new millennium. Eigner was not an overtly biographical poet, at least as far as his physical limitations were concerned, but his poetry spoke volumes on the idea of embodiment in all its forms.
Finding the Weight of Things: Larry Eigner’s Ecrippoetics is the first full-length study of Eigner’s poetry, covering his entire career from the beginning of his mature work in the 1950s to his last poems of the 1990s. George Hart charts where Eigner’s two central interests intersect, and how their interaction fueled his work as a poet-critic—one whose work has much to tell us about the ecology and embodiment of our futures. Hart sees Eigner’s overlapping concerns for disability, ecology, and poetic form as inextricable, and coins the phrase ecrippoetics here to describe Eigner’s prescient vision.
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