James Schuyler video, reading at the San Francisco Art Institute, Feb. 10, 1989 | Jacket2

James Schuyler video, reading at the San Francisco Art Institute, Feb. 10, 1989

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John Clare, the poet of the environmental crisis – 200 years ago | George Monbiot

Between 1809 and 1820, acts of enclosure granted the local landowners permission to fence the fields, the heaths and woods, excluding the people who had worked and played in them. Almost everything Clare loved was torn away. The ancient trees were felled, the scrub and furze were cleared, the rivers were canalised, the marshes drained, the natural curves of the land straightened and squared. Farming became more profitable, but many of the people of Helpston – especially those who depended on the commons for their survival – were deprived of their living. The places in which the people held their ceremonies and celebrated the passing of the seasons were fenced off. The community, like the land, was parcelled up, rationalised, atomised. I have watched the same process breaking up the Maasai of east Africa...

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