Ecopoetry

Critical Introduction

Scott Bryson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Utah Press,U.S.

Published:30th Jan '02

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The burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions from many of the most important scholars in the field as they discuss the historical and crosscultural roots of ecopoetry, while expanding the boundaries to include such themes as genocide and extinction, the lesbian body, and post colonialism. This volume gathers these necessary voices in the emerging conversation regarding poetry’s place in the environmental debate.

The essays are uniformly thoughtful, perceptive, and readable...[and] engage the current scholarship gracefully, without pretense or pedantry. Each chapter is stuffed with insights." —John Tallmadge, The Union Institute

ISBN: 9780874807011

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 405g

284 pages