Producing Nature

Please read Laura Elrick's essay "Poetry, Ecology, and the Reappropriation of Lived Space." It says almost everything I've wanted to say to the class about the relationship between environmental writing and the environment, transforming the former from a sphere of description into a sphere of artistic and social production.

Cortland Street Dérive

Clybourn Metra Platform, 10:30 AM, Saturday, October 24, 2009.

Goldenrod on the platform's edge.

Possibly defunct rail car by Metra line.


Public Storage. Wrigley.


Looking east.


Trackside.

Mysterious machine--a salt grinder?

Grinds salt or something like it.

Emma Jack Emma.

Water damage.


Hands.

Blue mark.

Between the street and the Edens.

Star Car Wash. Candy.

All soft car wash.


You must lower power antenna.


1438 W. Cortland.

Ivy near bridge.

Cortland Street Bridge.

Life buoy by bridge.

View of Chicago River from Cortland Street Bridge.

Drawbridge house.

Cable Crossing, Do Not Anchor.

Pastoral.


Machine on tracks at A. Finkl & Sons, a steel plant.

Blue pipes outside A. Finkl & Sons.


A/C graffiti.

Drill bit outside A. Finkl & Sons.


Solly's Fast Food. (It's a Chipotle now.)

The sunflower that grew from concrete.

Windows on Armitage.

Red doors.

Thru traffic prohibited.

A dentist's office.

Gingerbread on Armitage.

Green doors on Armitage.

Pumpkins on Armitage.

Armitage CTA.