Modern ecopoetry : reading the palimpsest of the more-than-human world / edited by Leonor María Martínez Serrano and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martínez Serrano, Leonor María, editor.

Gámez-Fernández, Cristina M., editor.

Series:

Nature, culture and literature ; Volume 16.

Nature, culture and literature ; Volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]

Summary:

"Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World interrogates how humans' relation to and confrontation with the nonhuman world is captured in or through poetry. It brings together contributions that explore how modern poetry addresses human beings' relationship with the natural world, mirroring some of the most salient ecopoetic approaches to date. This collection is written from very different corners of the globe and significantly adds to the existing body of work because, on the one hand, it continues to focus on the greening of poetry and, on the other, it expands its critical implementation in poets not necessarily included in mainstream literary canons, by setting them side by side regardless of their cultural background. Contributors: Aamir Aziz, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Stephen Hock, Matilde Martín González, Leonor María Martínez Serrano, María Antonia Mezquita Fernández, Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Catherine Woodward, Heather H. Yeung, Rabia Zaheer"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Finding a compass to a commonwealth of breath / Leonor María Martínez Serrano and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández

Belonging : the sacred sense of place. The roots and affinities of Dylan Thomas in the works of Claudio Rodríguez : sacred nature in the poet's imagination / María Antonia Mezquita Fernández

The wisdom of birds in Robert Bringhurst's poetry / Leonor María Martínez Serrano

Stubborn materiality and environmental poliethics. The agentic power of matter in Lorine Niedecker's "Wintergreen Ridge" and "Paean to Place" / Matilde Martín González

Of lyric temporality and materiality : Alice Oswald's environmental poetics / Heather H. Yeung

The political is personal : Juliana Spahr's political ecology / Esther Sánchez-Pardo

Postcolonial resistance and neoliberal toxicity. Development as deformation : postcolonial ecopoetics in Zulfikar Ghose's poetry / Rabia Zaheer and Aamir Aziz

Meena Kandasamy's contestation of inherited cultural landscapes in Touch / Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández

"Just junk in a Safeway cart I'm pushing down to the recycling center" : the aesthetics of ecology in Michael Robbins's poetry / Stephen Hock

Coda: Against use : (the difficulty of) writing nature poetry in an age of environmental crisis / Catherine Woodward.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-44527-7

OCLC:

1226964995