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 approachesExperiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crisesEarth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systemsWaste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate changeEnvironmental…mehr
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 approachesExperiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crisesEarth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systemsWaste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate changeEnvironmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural changeRegion and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; andSubjectivities/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 These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics.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.
Julia Fiedorczuk is a poet, writer, translator, and lecturer at the Institute of English Studies and a cofounder of the Environmental Studies Center at Warsaw University. She created the program for the experimental School of Ecopoetics at the Institute of Reportage in Warsaw. She has published several poetry books, the last of which, Psalms (2017), received the Szymborska Prize, Poland's most prestigious award for poetry, as well as three novels, short stories and essays in ecocriticism, including Ekopoetyka / Ecopoética / Ecopoetics (with Gerardo Beltrán, Warsaw, 2015). Her work has been translated into over 20 languages, including books in English, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Chinese and Georgian. Mary Newell authored the poetry chapbooks Re-SURGE and TILT/ HOVER/ VEER and essays including "When Poetry Rivers" (Interim journal 38.3). She is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary. She teaches creative writing at the University of Connecticut. Bernard Quetchenbach is the author of Back from the Far Field, a study of twentieth century American poetry; two poetry collections; and two chapbooks. His essay collection Accidental Gravity was a finalist and honorable mention in the 2017 Foreword Indies Book of the Year contest. "The Man by the Fire," his meditation on a Gary Snyder poem, was selected as the 2019 winner of the O. Marvin Lewis award from Weber: The Contemporary West. He edited The Bunch Grass Motel: The Collected Poems of Randall Gloege, a 2018 High Plains Book Awards finalist. With Mary Newell and Sarah Nolan, he edited Poetics for the More-Than-Human World, an anthology of poetry and commentary from several continents. He was an Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Artist-in-Residence in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest in 2015, and a workshop leader for the Yellowstone Forever/National Park Service Arts-in-the Park program in 2017. He is a professor of English at Montana State University Billings, where he teaches literature, environmental humanities, composition, and creative writing. Orchid Tierney is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. She is the author of the collection a year of misreading the wildcats (2019).
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Introduction
Section I. Perspectives
Mary Newell
Chapter 1. The Poetics of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
