Review of "So this is the world & here I am in it," By DiBrandt
Bibliographic record
Abstract
When Di Brandt speaks about poetryand its political dimensions, people listen, sometimes with their mouths agape, at her audacity and at her long looping ecoerotic sentences. Brandt's literary, ecocritical, and philosophical stances are well represented in So this is the world, as are her poetics, emphasized here through her reading of the prairie as both aesthetic and consciousness, a local that has much to teach us about the global. The collection is bracketed by two luminous essays-"This land that I love, this wide, wide prairie" and the title essay, "So this is the world and here I am in it"-that meld Brandt's poetics with her politics in the effulgent declaration of prairie ecopoetics. These situated essays endlessly work and rework the terms of "the land" and "the world"; Brandt's passionate location of her ecopoetic consciousness in the prairie of southern Manitoba can be neither effaced nor dismissed in the collection, the prairie functioning as a subtext to nearly everything she writes. Brandt is perhaps Canada's greatest ambassador of the prairies, working from an ecoliterary version of her Mennonite "radically communist, embodied sensibility," or what we might call the book's central concern of bringing the land back to the world. In essays like "The poet and the wild city," in which she traces the unruly tendencies of nature in an urban environment as a metaphor for spiritual tenacity, and "& then everything goes bee: A poet's journal," a remarkable piece examining the role of consciousness in insects and in art, Brandt brings fresh eyes to the use of the local as global. Through it all, she never ignores the powerful place of the literary in her ecocriticism; her radiant reading of Adele Wiseman's Crackpot praises the novel's cultural activism and the ribald sensuality of Wiseman's Hoda as "good old Manitoba Mama," a microcosm of prairie urbanism in the ripe body of a female immigrant.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.056 | 0.036 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".