Ecopoetry : a critical introduction / edited by J. Scott Bryson ; foreword by John Elder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bryson, J. Scott, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Nature in literature.

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Environmental protection in literature.

Environmental policy in literature.

Nature conservation in literature.

Wilderness areas in literature.

Landscapes in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 272 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2002]

Summary:

The Burgeoning Field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of ecopoets such 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 Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions from many of the most important scholars in the field as they discuss the historical and crosscultural roots of ecopoetry, while expanding the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 postcolonialism. This volume gathers these necessary voices in the emerging conversation regarding poetry's place in the environmental debate.

Contents:

Forerunners of ecopoetry. Regarding silence: cross-cultural roots of ecopoetic meditation

Emerson, divinity, and rhetoric in transcendentalist nature writing and twentieth-century ecopoetry

Landscape and the self in W.B. Yeats and Robinson Jeffers

William Carlos Williams, ecocriticism, and contemporary American nature poetry. Contemporary ecopoets. Gary Snyder and the post-pastoral

Earth's echo: answering nature in Ammon's poetry

"Between Earth and silence": place and space in the poetry of W.S. Merwin

Panentheistic epistemology: the style of Wendell Berry's A Timbered choir

The pragmatic mysticism of Mary Oliver

"Everything blooming bows down in the rain": nature and the work of mourning in the contemporary elegy

Genocide and extinction in Linda Hogan's ecopoetry. Expanding the boundaries. "The redshifting web": Arthur Sze's ecopoetics

In her element: Daphne Marlatt, the lesbian body, and the environment

Postcolonial romanticisms: Derek Walcott and the melancholic narrative of landscape

A woman writing about nature: Louise Glück and "the absence of intention"

How to love this world: the transpersonal wild in Margaret Atwood's ecological poetry

Primary concerns: the development of current environmental identity poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0874807018

OCLC:

48014840