Full Description
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 These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics.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.
Contents
Introduction
Section I. Perspectives
Mary Newell
Chapter 1. The Poetics of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
Lynn Keller
Chapter 2. The Agencene
H. L. Hix
Chapter 3. Decolonial Praxis/Indigenous Resurgence: Relational Accountability in 'Kin Study' Poetics
Linda Russo
Chapter 4. Planetary Poiesis
Aaron Moe
Chapter 5. Lucretius, Extinction Rebellion, and the Poetics of Love and Rage
Evelyn Reilly
Section II. Experiments
Julia Fiedorczuk
Chapter 6. Indigenous Poiesis: The Semiotics of Circulation in Villegas' Maya Poetry
Charles Maurice Pigott
Chapter 7. Embodiment as an 'Ongoing Formal Experience': New Materialist Encounters with Ecopoetics
Joanna Mąkowska
Chapter 8. Down in Strata: Stratigraphic Poetics and Feminist Literary Engagement in Brenda Hillman's Cascadia
Gerald Maa and Ben Rutherfurd
Chapter 9. Cartographical Imagination as an Ecopoetic Mode of Engaging the Global
Grzegorz Czemiel
Chapter 10. "Not the light / of any evening / but the light / of this evening": Ecopoetics, Ethics and Particularity in the Work of Thomas A Clark
Harriet Tarlo
Section III. Earth and Water
Orchid Tierney
Chapter 11. Phytopoetics: Human-Plant Relations and the Poiesis of Vegetal Life"
John Charles Ryan
Chapter 12. Amazonian Zoophytography: Ecopoetic Writing with Animals and Plants
Patrícia Vieira
Chapter 13. Elegiac Joy: Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Poetics of the Garden
Anissa Wardi
Chapter 14. Riparian Entanglements: an Ecopoetics of the Colonial River
Stephen Collis
Chapter 15. "Nature's way of representing the world": Alice Oswald's Poetry and Poetics of Water
Christian Schmitt-Kilb
Chapter 16. Women Poets Breaking the Waves of the Portuguese Sea
Nuno Marques and Margarida Vale de Gato
Chapter 17. "Will plastic make life impossible?: Transpacific Poets Confront Ocean Plastic
Aaron Pinnix
Section IV. Waste/Toxicity/Precarity
Adam Dickinson
Chapter 18. The Work of Reconnection, Japanese Ecopoetry by Rumiko Kora and Ryoichi Wago
Ayako Takahashi and Judy Halebsky
Chapter 19. "The machine took me in': Processing Nuclear Labors in Kathleen Flenniken's Plume"
Nicole M. Merola
Chapter 20. Extinction and Re-Plenitude
Joshua Schuster
Chapter 21. Anti-Atmospheres and Everyday Rare Phenomena
Orchid Tierney
Chapter 22. "Imperial Debris": the Vietnam War and Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain
Zhou Xiaojing
Section V. Environmental Justice and Activism
Bernard Quetchenbach
Chapter 23. Saboteurial Poetics: Blockades, Machine-Breaking, & Infrastructure from Below
Alexandra Campbell and Fred Carter
Chapter 24. Witness to the Exchange: Documentary Environmental Poetics
Jonathan Skinner
Chapter 25. Energy Ecopoetics
Margaret Ronda and Kristin George Bagdanov
Chapter 26. "To end again tomorrow": The Virtual Reality Ecopoetics of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World
Kaitlin Moore
Section VI. Region and Place
Bernard Quetchenbach
Chapter 27. African Ecopoetics
Philip Aghoghvwia and Emily McGiffin
Chapter 28. 'New' Nature Poetry: An Ecopoetical Reading of Contemporary
Pakistani Nature Poetry
Munazza Yaqoob
Chapter 29. Ecopoetics and Ecofeminist Poetics in Contemporary China
Liansu Meng
Chapter 30. Vahni Capildeo and the Convergence of Ecopoetics and Dougla Poetics
Lubabah Chowdhury
Chapter 31. Building a Homestead: An Ecopoetic Reading of the Poetry of Paul Celan
Paweł Piszczatowski
Chapter 32. Country Matters: Introducing Australian Ecopoetics
Tom Bristow
Chapter 33. Francophone Ecopoetics: The Performativity of the Text
Gina Stamm
Section VII. Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities
Orchid Tierney
Chapter 34. Taken by the Creek: The Queer Ecology of Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime Against Nature
Stacey Balkun
Chapter 35. Entangled Remembrances: Counter-memory and New Materialism in Judith Wright's Poetry"
Rıza Çimen
Chapter 36. Indigenous Counter-Narratives: Sámi Poetry Challenging the Mastery of Nature
Anne Heith
Chapter 37. The (Un)Sustainable Self and Post-Human Spaces of Interiority in Contemporary North American and Polish Poetry
Paulina Ambroży
Chapter 38. It Expresses THEM!: Black Women's Writings and Ecopoetics
Carlyn Ferrari
Chapter 39. Who was ever only themselves?" Cross-border Ecologies of Translation
Zoë Skoulding
