Ecopoetry: A Critical IntroductionJ. Scott Bryson The burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions from many of the most important scholars in the field as they discuss the historical and crosscultural roots of ecopoetry, while expanding the boundaries to include such themes as genocide and extinction, the lesbian body, and post colonialism. This volume gathers these necessary voices in the emerging conversation regarding poetry's place in the environmental debate. |
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CrossCultural Roots of Ecopoetic Meditation | 17 |
Landscape and the Self in W B Yeats and Robinson Jeffers | 39 |
William Carlos Williams Ecocriticism and Contemporary American | 58 |
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A. R. Ammons aesthetic American Poetry Ammons's animal Anthology argues Arthur Sze Atwood awareness beauty Berry's biocentric body connection contemporary create creation critical culture Daphne Marlatt darkness death divine earth Echo ecocriticism ecofeminist ecological ecopoetry ecopoets ecosystem elegy Emerson environment environmental essay experience Gary Snyder Glück House of Light human and nonhuman Ibid identity imagery imagination land landscape language Linda Hogan lines linguistic literary living Louise Glück Margaret Atwood Mary Oliver meditations metaphor mirror Native American natural world nature poetry nature writing nonhuman nature Oliver's pastoral perception poem's poet poet's poetic post-pastoral postcolonial postmodern present readers reading relationship rhetoric river Robinson Jeffers Scigaj sense Shabine social song speak speaker spiritual Stevens Steveston suggests Sze's things Timbered Choir tion tradition transcend trees University Press vision voice W. B. Yeats W. S. Merwin Walcott Wendell Berry Wild Williams Williams's words Yeats's York