INTERVIEW with Kenneth White: Intellectual nomadism and geopoetics

Résumé

Kenneth White is the creator of geopoetics. Whoever wants to understand what geopoetics is, and its immense implications, cannot miss the exhilarating immersion in his work made up of essays, narrative prose and poems which has been unfolding like a vast river system for more than half a century. The general purpose of geopoetics is to give the world a new grounding, this implying a radically renewed relationship to what is called “nature”. This happens by understanding the poetics of the natural world, namely its thousand and one ways of spontaneously creating structures at all scales and in all parts of nature, including the human, and by creating a new culture in harmony with the Earth.