ABSTRACT
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 approaches
- Experiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crises
- Earth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systems
- Waste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate change
- Environmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural change
- Region and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; and
- Subjectivities/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 These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics.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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|9 pages
Decolonial Praxis/Indigenous Resurgence
Relational Accountability in “Kin Study” Poetics
chapter 7|13 pages
Embodiment as an “Ongoing Formal Experience”
New Materialist Encounters with Ecopoetics
chapter 8|9 pages
Down in Strata
Stratigraphic Poetics and Feminist Literary Engagement in Brenda Hillman's Cascadia
chapter 10|15 pages
“Not The Light/of Any Evening/But The Light/ of This Evening”
Ecopoetics, Ethics, and Particularity in the Work of Thomas A Clark
chapter 15|12 pages
“Nature's Way of Representing the World”
Alice Oswald's Poetry and Poetics of Water
chapter 26|10 pages
“To End Again Tomorrow”
The Virtual Reality Ecopoetics of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)
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part Section VII|64 pages
Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities
chapter 34|10 pages
Taken by the Creek
The Queer Ecology of Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime Against Nature
chapter 35|9 pages
Entangled Remembrances
Counter-Memory and New Materialism in Judith Wright's Poetry
