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

Other author Bryson, J. Scott, 1968-
Format Book
Publication InfoSalt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxi, 272 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
American poetry--History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
English poetry--History and criticism.
Environmental protection in literature.
Environmental policy in literature.
Nature conservation in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Ecology in literature.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001005653
ISBN0874807018