![]() Further, Bishop's poems offer a newly relevant feminist ecology within our so-called Anthropocene era of humanly caused, unnaturally accelerated geology. Theoretically, Bishop's Darwinian love poems richly materialize the queer body while redefining our enmeshment in nature as the wellspring of achieved being, intimacy, and desire. Adapting Darwin's similarly haunted, dark, Romantic accounts of his voyaging into crustal earth, Bishop's " Crusoe " and " Vague Poem " variously enact an immersion in earth's unfolding volcanic or crystalline ancestral past, which successively opens out " eco-geologically " to enmesh queer human intimacy/ the body. " I survey Bishop's shift from her early Freudian, " primordial " rocky landscapes, projecting submerged desires for a seductive mother figure, to her later deliberate materializations of these psychosexual realms in " the real " of geology's unfolding forces and flows. This essay explores the impact of Charles Darwin's often poetic, largely geological travel narratives – the Diary and Voyage of the Beagle – on Elizabeth Bishop's queered travel poems " Crusoe in England " (1976) and " Vague Poem " (circa 1973), in the context of recent feminist theory's materialist ecological " turn. ![]()
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