The Posthuman Evolution of a Hazardous Transcorporeality: Tracy K. Smith’s Poetics of Water from “Thirst” to Wade in the Water

• Main Author: Azad, Bahareh
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2025
• Subjects: ethicopolitical ecopoetics; hazardous transcorporeality; Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead; posthuman lyric; Stacy Alaimo
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss46/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2152/viewcontent/3A_20Azad_20KK46.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This study analyzes Tracy K. Smith’s poetry through the lens of ecological materialism and Stacy Alaimo’s concept of transcorporeality, which emphasizes the fluidity and vitality of bodies and their interconnectedness. Tracing the evolution of Smith’s ethicopolitical concerns, I explore the elementa...