ABSTRACT
This chapter establishes the connections between the seemingly disparate phenomena of poetry and ecological movements, by exploring how some indigenous poets in Brazil are coming to terms with ecological issues and mobilize new media to challenge the corporate and political structures responsible for environmental abuses. Moreover "online activist eco-poetry" represents a form of cultural resistance against the government's encroaching policies, as it questions official narratives that tend to privilege economic development at the cost of ecological conservation. The chapter argues that by turning to new media tools, indigenous environmentalist poets suggest the syncretic coexistence between seemingly incompatible binary oppositions such as nature and culture, or ecology and technology, proving the inadequacy of such dichotomies. In Brazil, cannibalism or antropofagia as a cultural form has enjoyed several reincarnations and has been deployed to dislodge oppositions ingrained within Western colonial thought. Daniel Munduruku is an exemplary case among the indigenous poet-blogger-activists who cannibalize and deploy technology in defense of Brazil's environment.
