Human–Nonhuman Intra-Action in Kendel Hippolyte's Ecopoetry

This chapter takes as its subject the ecopoetry of the St. Lucian poet Kendel Hippolyte. It argues that Hippolyte's poetry situates the human subject beyond the Cartesian belief in the inherent distinction between subject and object, human and nonhuman. This chapter analyses how Hippolyte's poetry configures the St. Lucian nonhuman environment as agentic despite its fragility in the face of the Anthropocene and how it situates the human within this environment.