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Ecocriticism And The Poiesis Of Form: Holding On To Proteus Demonstrates How A Fractal Imagination Helps One Hold The Form Of A Poem Within The Reaches Of Deep Time, And It Explores The Kinship Between The Hazy, Liminal Moment When Sound Becomes Syllable And The Hazy, Liminal Moment When The Sage Energy Of The Atom Made A Leap Toward The Gaze Of The First Cell, To Echo Merwin. Moe Distills His Methodology As Follows: 'my Work?--i Point,' Asserted The Aphorism. 'that's What I Do.' To Point, The Project Integrates A Wide Range Of Interdisciplinary Ideas--including Biosemiotics, Fractals, Phi, Trauma Theory, The Mandelbrot Set, Hyperobjects, Meditative Chants, Goethe's Morphology, Ramanujan's Summation, A Spiderweb's Sonic Properties, And Thoreau's Sense Of The Plant-like Burgeoning Force Of An Atom--in Order To Open Up Multiple Trajectories. In This Context, The Volume Foregrounds The Insights Of Poets/storytellers Including Hillman, Snyder, Anzaldúa, Eec, Okpik, Whitman, Dickinson, Gladding, Melville, Morrison, And Toomer, For They Are Most Attentive To That Liminal Moment When The Vibratory Hum In Language, And In The Cosmos, Turns Kinetic-- Protean Energy; Or, The Squeeze & The Turn In Moby-dick -- Biosemiotics And Jody Gladding's Translations From Bark Beetle -- Vibrational Poiesis Of Insects And Arachnids -- Electrons/swoon In The Sword Fern : Plants, Seeds, And Brenda Hillman's Thoreauvian Attentiveness -- The Worship Of Kinesis In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson And Sylvia Plath -- Machines, Protean Mimicry, And The Organic Energy Of Writing Technologies -- Plant Magic Dust : A Look At The Making Obsession -- Holding On -- The Squeeze Of Trauma : Protean Being & 500 Years Of Pressure -- Mathematics And The Protean Sublime -- Protean Energy As Hyperobject : Language And The Cosmos -- Gaia, The Atom, And The Poem -- Protean Poiesis : An Afterword. Aaron M. Moe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.