Modern ecopoetry
Subtitle: reading the palimpsest of the more-than-human world
By: edited by Leonor María Martínez Serrano and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
Series: Nature, culture and literature -- volume 16; Nature, culture and literature -- volume 16.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9789004445260; 9789004445277
Subjects: Nature in literature; Human ecology in literature; Environmentalism in literature; Modern Poetry; History and criticism
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Finding a compass to a commonwealth of breath / Leonor María Martínez Serrano and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández; title: 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; title: The wisdom of birds in Robert Bringhurst's poetry / Leonor María Martínez Serrano; title: Stubborn materiality and environmental poliethics. The agentic power of matter in Lorine Niedecker's "Wintergreen Ridge" and "Paean to Place" / Matilde Martín González; title: Of lyric temporality and materiality : Alice Oswald's environmental poetics / Heather H. Yeung; title: The political is personal : Juliana Spahr's political ecology / Esther Sánchez-Pardo; title: Postcolonial resistance and neoliberal toxicity. Development as deformation : postcolonial ecopoetics in Zulfikar Ghose's poetry / Rabia Zaheer and Aamir Aziz; title: Meena Kandasamy's contestation of inherited cultural landscapes in Touch / Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández; title: "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; title: Coda: Against use : (the difficulty of) writing nature poetry in an age of environmental crisis / Catherine Woodward.