Ecopoetics : essays in the field / edited by Angela Hume and Gillian Osborne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hume, Angela.

Osborne, Gillian.

Series:

Contemporary North American poetry series.

Contemporary North American poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature conservation in literature.

American poetry.

Ecology in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Philosophy of nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages).

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2018.

Summary:

Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field makes a formidable intervention into the emerging field of ecopoetics. The volume's essays model new and provocative methods for reading twentieth and twenty-first century ecological poetry and poetics, drawing on the insights of ecocriticism, contemporary philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, black studies, Native studies, critical race theory, and disability studies, among others. Contributors offer readings of a diverse range of poets, few of whom have previously been read as nature writers-from midcentury Beat poet Michael McClure, Objectivist poet George Oppen, and African American poets Melvin Tolson and Robert Hayden; to contemporary writers such as Diné poet Sherwin Bitsui, hybrid/ collage poets Claudia Rankine and Evelyn Reilly, emerging QPOC poet Xandria Phillips, and members of the Olimpias disability culture artists' collective. While addressing preconceptions about the categories of nature writing and ecopoetics, contributors explore, challenge, and reimagine concepts that have been central to environmental discourse, from apocalypse and embodiment to toxicity and sustainability. This collection of essays makes the compelling argument that ecopoetics should be read as "coextensive with post-1945 poetry and poetics, " rather than as a subgenre or movement within it. It is essential reading for any student or scholar working on contemporary literature or in the environmental humanities today. Contributors: Joshua Bennett, Rob Halpern, Matt Hooley, Angela Hume, Lynn Keller, Petra Kuppers, Michelle Niemann, Gillian Osborne, Samia Rahimtoola, Joan Retallack, Joshua Schuster, Jonathan Skinner.

Contents:

Introduction: Ecopoetics as expanded critical practice / Angela Hume and Gillian Osborne

Making art "under these apo-calypso rays": crisis, apocalypse, and contemporary ecopoetics / Lynn Keller

The idiot stone: George Oppen's geological imagination, or, objectivist realism as ecopoetics / Rob Halpern

Visceral ecopoetics in Charles Olson and Michael McClure: proprioception, biology, and the writing body / Jonathan Skinner

Playing in the planetary field: vulnerability and syncretic myth-making in Robert Duncan's ecopoetics / Michelle Niemann

"Beyond the vomiting dark": toward a Black hydropoetics / Joshua Bennett

Writing with the salamander: an ecopoetic community performance project / Petra Kuppers

Toxic recognition: coloniality and ecocritical attention / Matt Hooley

Toward an antiracist ecopoetics: waste and wasting In the poetry of Claudia Rankine / Angela Hume

"Hung up in the flood": resilience, variability, and the poetry of Lorine Niedecker / Samia Rahimtoola

Toward a conceptual ecopoetics / Joshua Schuster

Hard day's nights in the anthropocene / Joan Retallack.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781609385606

1609385608