Modern Ecopoetry

Reading the Palimpsest of the More-than-human World

• Author(s): Leonor María Martínez Serrano, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández,
• Publisher: Brill
• Pages: 211
• ISBN_10: 9004445269
  ISBN_13: 9789004445260
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Poetry , Poetry / Ancient & Classical ,

Description:... 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.