Research Catalog

Title

Ecopoetry : a critical introduction / edited by J. Scott Bryson ; foreword by John Elder.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Bryson, J. Scott, 1968-

Description

xi, 272 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Nature conservation in literature
• Landscapes in literature
• Nature in literature
• Wilderness areas in literature
• Ecology in literature
• American poetry > History and criticism
• English poetry > History and criticism
• Environmental policy in literature
• Environmental protection in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Forerunners of ecopoetry. Regarding silence: cross-cultural roots of ecopoetic meditation -- Emerson, divinity, and rhetoric in transcendentalist nature writing and twentieth-century ecopoetry -- Landscape and the self in W.B. Yeats and Robinson Jeffers -- William Carlos Williams, ecocriticism, and contemporary American nature poetry. Contemporary ecopoets. Gary Snyder and the post-pastoral -- Earth's echo: answering nature in Ammon's poetry -- "Between Earth and silence": place and space in the poetry of W.S. Merwin -- Panentheistic epistemology: the style of Wendell Berry's A Timbered choir -- The pragmatic mysticism of Mary Oliver -- "Everything blooming bows down in the rain": nature and the work of mourning in the contemporary elegy -- Genocide and extinction in Linda Hogan's ecopoetry. Expanding the boundaries. "The redshifting web": Arthur Sze's ecopoetics -- In her element: Daphne Marlatt, the lesbian body, and the environment -- Postcolonial romanticisms: Derek Walcott and the melancholic narrative of landscape -- A woman writing about nature: Louise Glück and "the absence of intention" -- How to love this world: the transpersonal wild in Margaret Atwood's ecological poetry -- Primary concerns: the development of current environmental identity poetry.

Call Number

JFE 02-11508

ISBN

0874807018

LCCN

2001005653

OCLC

48014840

Title

Ecopoetry : a critical introduction / edited by J. Scott Bryson ; foreword by John Elder.

Imprint

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bryson, J. Scott, 1968-

Research Call Number

JFE 02-11508