Sustainable Poetry : Four American Ecopoets / Leonard M. Scigaj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scigaj, Leonard M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology in literature.

Nature conservation in literature.

Environmental protection in literature.

Nature in literature.

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

American poetry.

Snyder, Gary, 1930---Knowledge--Natural history.

Snyder, Gary.

Ammons, A. R., 1926-2001--Knowledge--Natural history.

Ammons, A. R.

Berry, Wendell, 1934---Knowledge--Natural history.

Berry, Wendell.

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019--Knowledge--Natural history.

Merwin, W. S.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on the work of A.R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, W.S. Merwin, and Gary Snyder, author Leonard Scigaj shows that just as a sustainable society does not depreciate its resource base, so a sustainable poetry does not restrict interest to language. Over the past thirty years many poets have shown an increasing sensitivity to ecological thinking. But critics trained in poststructuralist language theory often fail to explore the substance of ecopoetry. Scigaj is the first to define ecopoetry as separate and distinct from nature or environmental poetry, marked by its concern with balancing the int

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations Used in the Text; 1 Ecopoetry and Contemporary American Poetry Criticism; 2 Sustainable Poetry: A Poetry of Référance; 3 Homology and Chiastic Energy in the Lived Body: A. R. Ammons; 4 The Long Hunter's Vision: Wendell Berry; 5 Closing the Ecarts through the Moment of Green: W. S. Merwin; 6 Wild Nature and Joyful Interpenetration: Gary Snyder; Postscript: The Green Referential Fuse; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-295) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-4801-4

OCLC:

607140265