The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (Routledge Literature Companions)

✍ Scribed by Julia Fiedorczuk (editor), Mary Newell (editor), Bernard Quetchenbach (editor), Orchid Tierney (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 459
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections:

• Perspectives: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approaches
• Experiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crises
• Earth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systems
• Waste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate change
• Environmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural change
• Region and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; and
• Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities: investigations of gender, ethnicity, and race as they intersect with ecological concerns

Each section includes an overview and summary addressing the specific essays in the section. These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Contributions from leading scholars working across the globe make The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ecopoetry, Ecocriticism, and Ecopoetics
Section I: Perspectives
1 The Poetics of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
2 The Agencene
3 Decolonial Praxis/Indigenous Resurgence: Relational Accountability in "Kin Study" Poetics
4 Planetary Poiesis
5 Lucretius, Extinction Rebellion, and the Poetics of Love and Rage
Section II: Experiments
6 Indigenous Poiesis: The Semiotics of Circulation in Villegas' Maya Poetry
7 Embodiment as an "Ongoing Formal Experience": New Materialist Encounters with Ecopoetics
8 Down in Strata: Stratigraphic Poetics and Feminist Literary Engagement in Brenda Hillman's Cascadia
9 Cartographical Imagination as an Ecopoetic Mode of Engaging the Global
10 "Not the Light/of any Evening/But the Light/of this Evening": Ecopoetics, Ethics, and Particularity in the Work of Thomas A Clark
Section III: Earth and Water
11 Phytopoetics: Human-Plant Relations and the Poiesis of Vegetal Life
12 Amazonian Zoophytography: Ecopoetic Writing with Animals and Plants
13 Elegiac Joy: Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Poetics of the Garden
14 Riparian Entanglements: An Ecopoetics of the Colonial River
15 "Nature's Way of Representing the World": Alice Oswald's Poetry and Poetics of Water
16 Women Poets Breaking the Waves of the Portuguese Sea
17 "Will Plastic Make Life Impossible?": Transpacific Poets Confront Ocean Plastic
Section IV: Waste/Toxicity/Precarity
18 The Work of Reconnection, Japanese Ecopoetry by Rumiko Kora and Ryoichi Wago
19 "The Machine Took Me in": Processing Nuclear Labors in Kathleen Flenniken's Plume
20 Extinction and Re-Plenitude
21 Anti-Atmospheres and Everyday Rare Phenomena
22 "Imperial Debris": The Vietnam War and Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain
Section V: Environmental Justice and Activism
23 Saboteurial Poetics: Blockades, Machine-Breaking, and Infrastructure From Below
24 Witness to the Exchange: Documentary Environmental Poetics
25 Energy Ecopoetics
26 "To End Again Tomorrow": The Virtual Reality Ecopoetics of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)
Section VI: Region and Place
27 African Ecopoetics
28 Nature in Contemporary Pakistani Poetry: An Ecopoetical Reading
29 Ecopoetics and Ecofeminist Poetics in Contemporary China
30 Vahni Capildeo and the Convergence of Ecopoetics and Dougla Poetics
31 Building a Homestead: An Ecopoetic Reading of the Poetry of Paul Celan
32 Country Matters: Introducing Australian Ecopoetics
33 Francophone Ecopoetics: The Performativity of the Text
Section VII: Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities
34 Taken by the Creek: The Queer Ecology of Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime Against Nature
35 Entangled Remembrances: Counter-Memory and New Materialism in Judith Wright's Poetry
36 Indigenous Counter-Narratives: Sámi Poetry Challenging the Mastery of Nature
37 The (Un)Sustainable Self and Posthuman Spaces of Interiority in Contemporary North American and Polish Poetry
38 It Expresses THEM!: Black Women's Writings and Ecopoetics
39 "Who was Ever Only Themselves?" Cross-Border Ecologies of Translation
Index