Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field (Contemp North American Poetry)

✍ Scribed by Angela Hume (editor), Gillian Osborne (editor)

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 280
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field (Contemp

📁 Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field (Contemp North American Poetry)

✍ Angela Hume (editor), Gillian Osborne (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 University Of Iowa Press 🌐 English

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, co

Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field

📁 Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field

✍ Angela Hume (editor), Gillian Osborne (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 University of Iowa Press 🌐 English

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 phil

Recomposing ecopoetics: North American p

📁 Recomposing ecopoetics: North American poetry of the self-conscious anthropocene

✍ Keller, Lynn 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 University of Virginia Press 🌐 English

"This book grapples with key cultural and environmental conundrums that confront us now: the scale of planetary change, toxicity, plastics, apocalypticism, human relations to nonhuman animals, place in a globalized world, and environmental justice issues. Analyzing work by contemporary North America

Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (Co

📁 Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (Contemp North American Poetry)

✍ Lytle Shaw 📂 Library 📅 2006 🌐 English

In this stimulating and innovative synthesis of New York's artistic and literary worlds, Lytle Shaw uses the social and philosophical problems involved in “reading” a coterie to propose a new language for understanding the poet, art critic, and Museum of Modern Art curator Frank O'Hara (1926-1966).

History, Memory, and the Literary Left:

📁 History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968 (Contemp North American Poetry)

✍ John Lowney 📂 Library 📅 2006 🌐 English

In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era’s impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960s. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsider

Contested Records: The Turn to Documents

📁 Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry

✍ Michael Leong 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 University Of Iowa Press 🌐 English

Why have so many contemporary poets turned to source material, from newspapers to governmental records, as inspiration for their poetry? How can citational poems offer a means of social engagement? Contested Records analyzes how some of the most well-known twenty-first century North American