University of Utah Press, 2002 Paper: 978-0-87480-701-1
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions from many of the most important scholars in the field as they discuss the historical and crosscultural roots of ecopoetry, while expanding the boundaries to include such themes as genocide and extinction, the lesbian body, and post colonialism. This volume gathers these necessary voices in the emerging conversation regarding poetry’s place in the environmental debate.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
J. Scott Bryson is assistant professor in the English department at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles.
REVIEWS
"The essays are uniformly thoughtful, perceptive, and readable...[and] engage the current scholarship gracefully, without pretense or pedantry. Each chapter is stuffed with insights."—John Tallmadge, The Union Institute
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword
Elder,
John
Introduction
Bryson,
J. Scott
Forerunners of Ecopoetry
Regarding Silence: Cross-Cultural Roots of Ecopoetic Meditation
Gilcrest,
David
Emerson, Divinity, and Rhetoric in Transcendentalist Nature Writing and Twentieth-Century Ecopoetry
Thompson,
Roger
Landscape and the Self in W. B. Yeats and Robinson Jeffers
Fleming,
Deborah
William Carlos Williams, Ecocriticism, and Contemporary American Nature Poetry
Long,
Mark
Contemporary Ecopoets
Gary Snyder and the Post-Pastoral
Gifford,
Terry
Earth's Echo: Answering Nature in Ammons's Poetry
Voros,
Gyorgyi
“Between the Earth and Silence”: Place and Space in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin
Bryson,
J. Scott
Panentheistic Epistemology: The Style of Wendell Berry's A Timbered Choir
Scigaj,
Leonard M.
The Pragmatic Mysticism of Mary Oliver
Christensen,
Laird
“Everything Blooming Bows Down in the Rain”: Nature and the Work of Mourning in the Contemporary Elegy
Thomson,
Jeffrey
Genocide and Extinction in Linda Hogan's Ecopoetry
Hegarty,
Emily
Expanding the Boundaries
“The Redshifting Web”: Arthur Sze's Ecopoetics
Xiaojing,
Zhou
In Her Element: Daphne Marlatt, the Lesbian Body, and the Environment
Curran,
Beverly
Postcolonial Romanticisms: Derek Walcott and the Melancholic Narrative of Landscape
Kamada,
Roy Osamu
A Woman Writing about Nature: Louise Gluck and “the absence of intention”
Gordon,
Maggie
How to Love This World: The Transpersonal Wild in Margaret Atwood's Ecological Poetry
Hunt,
Richard
Primary Concerns: The Development of Current Environmental Identity Poetry
Quetchenbach,
Bernard W.
Contributors
Index
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University of Utah Press, 2002 Paper: 978-0-87480-701-1
The burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions from many of the most important scholars in the field as they discuss the historical and crosscultural roots of ecopoetry, while expanding the boundaries to include such themes as genocide and extinction, the lesbian body, and post colonialism. This volume gathers these necessary voices in the emerging conversation regarding poetry’s place in the environmental debate.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
J. Scott Bryson is assistant professor in the English department at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles.
REVIEWS
"The essays are uniformly thoughtful, perceptive, and readable...[and] engage the current scholarship gracefully, without pretense or pedantry. Each chapter is stuffed with insights."—John Tallmadge, The Union Institute
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword
Elder,
John
Introduction
Bryson,
J. Scott
Forerunners of Ecopoetry
Regarding Silence: Cross-Cultural Roots of Ecopoetic Meditation
Gilcrest,
David
Emerson, Divinity, and Rhetoric in Transcendentalist Nature Writing and Twentieth-Century Ecopoetry
Thompson,
Roger
Landscape and the Self in W. B. Yeats and Robinson Jeffers
Fleming,
Deborah
William Carlos Williams, Ecocriticism, and Contemporary American Nature Poetry
Long,
Mark
Contemporary Ecopoets
Gary Snyder and the Post-Pastoral
Gifford,
Terry
Earth's Echo: Answering Nature in Ammons's Poetry
Voros,
Gyorgyi
“Between the Earth and Silence”: Place and Space in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin
Bryson,
J. Scott
Panentheistic Epistemology: The Style of Wendell Berry's A Timbered Choir
Scigaj,
Leonard M.
The Pragmatic Mysticism of Mary Oliver
Christensen,
Laird
“Everything Blooming Bows Down in the Rain”: Nature and the Work of Mourning in the Contemporary Elegy
Thomson,
Jeffrey
Genocide and Extinction in Linda Hogan's Ecopoetry
Hegarty,
Emily
Expanding the Boundaries
“The Redshifting Web”: Arthur Sze's Ecopoetics
Xiaojing,
Zhou
In Her Element: Daphne Marlatt, the Lesbian Body, and the Environment
Curran,
Beverly
Postcolonial Romanticisms: Derek Walcott and the Melancholic Narrative of Landscape
Kamada,
Roy Osamu
A Woman Writing about Nature: Louise Gluck and “the absence of intention”
Gordon,
Maggie
How to Love This World: The Transpersonal Wild in Margaret Atwood's Ecological Poetry
Hunt,
Richard
Primary Concerns: The Development of Current Environmental Identity Poetry
Quetchenbach,
Bernard W.
Contributors
Index
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