Infinity Lyric: Lysergic Excess in the Poetry of Dana Ward
Green Letters June 18, 2026 Maria Sledmere
This article examines how the work of contemporary American poet Dana Ward generates ecological thinking through ‘infinity lyric’: a mode shaped by psychedelic aesthetics, drifting attention and shifting scales of perception. By close reading Ward’s two collections, This Can’t Be Life (2012) and The Crisis of Infinite Worlds (2013), in conversation with poststructuralist, new materialist and...