By sensing the fundamental ideas of earth and the earth-thought this collection seeks to
negotiate with and react to the underlying semasiological or psycho-geographical principle of
geopoetics that cuts across varied and at times conflicting schools. From reading some
geopoetical texts to understanding the idea of earth in Humboldt and Marx-Engels topolitics in
Tintin reef-thinking geopoet(h)ics and Asiabodh the volume tries to perceive how we
poetically exist with the earth. Isn't literature taking a cue from Hölderlin a symptom of
the way man lives poetically on the earth? How is our body and psyche integral parts of the
earth-thought? How does literature deal with the concepts of space and place? How literature
enables us to comprehend the underlying principle of geopoetics - the principle of finding art
in earth? These are some of the critical questions which this volume seeks to
explore.Literature exemplifies a geographical consciousness - an intimate and subjective
experience of the earth. This book is an attempt to conceive this eclectic infusion of art and
earth so that we are able to ensure that the world of the art always remains in touch with the
earth of the world. Let us through this book un-earth this deep-rooted spatiality and
geographicality in literature. Let us imitate earth through art as this is the only place
where we can live.
