Plants in contemporary poetry : ecocriticism and the botanical imagination / John Charles Ryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryan, John (John Charles) (Poet), author.

Series:

Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture

Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plants in literature.

Ecology in literature.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Australian poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Australian poetry.

Physical Description:

245 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: the botanical imagination

Sacred ecologies of plants: the vegetative soul in Les Murray's poetry

That porous line: Mary Oliver and the intercorporeality of the vegetal body

It healeth inward wounds: bioempathic emplacement and the radical vegetal poetics of Elisabeth Bletsoe

From stinking goose-foot to bastard toadflax: botanical humor in Alice Oswald's Weeds and wild flowers

Consciousness buried in earth: vegetal memory in Louise Glück's The wild iris

That seed sets time ablaze: Judith Wright and the temporality of plants

On the death of plants: John Kinsella's radical pastoralism and the weight of botanical melancholia

Every leaf imagined with us: vegetal hope and the love of flora in Joy Harjo's poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138186286

1138186287

OCLC:

1001807353