The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (Routledge Literature Companions)

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 These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics.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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Ecopoetry, Ecocriticism, and Ecopoetics Section I: Perspectives 1 The Poetics of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene 2 The Agencene 3 Decolonial Praxis/Indigenous Resurgence: Relational Accountability in "Kin Study" Poetics 4 Planetary Poiesis 5 Lucretius, Extinction Rebellion, and the Poetics of Love and Rage Section II: Experiments 6 Indigenous Poiesis: The Semiotics of Circulation in Villegas' Maya Poetry 7 Embodiment as an "Ongoing Formal Experience": New Materialist Encounters with Ecopoetics 8 Down in Strata: Stratigraphic Poetics and Feminist Literary Engagement in Brenda Hillman's Cascadia 9 Cartographical Imagination as an Ecopoetic Mode of Engaging the Global 10 "Not the Light/of any Evening/But the Light/of this Evening": Ecopoetics, Ethics, and Particularity in the Work of Thomas A Clark Section III: Earth and Water 11 Phytopoetics: Human-Plant Relations and the Poiesis of Vegetal Life 12 Amazonian Zoophytography: Ecopoetic Writing with Animals and Plants 13 Elegiac Joy: Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Poetics of the Garden 14 Riparian Entanglements: An Ecopoetics of the Colonial River 15 "Nature's Way of Representing the World": Alice Oswald's Poetry and Poetics of Water 16 Women Poets Breaking the Waves of the Portuguese Sea 17 "Will Plastic Make Life Impossible?": Transpacific Poets Confront Ocean Plastic Section IV: Waste/Toxicity/Precarity 18 The Work of Reconnection, Japanese Ecopoetry by Rumiko Kora and Ryoichi Wago 19 "The Machine Took Me in": Processing Nuclear Labors in Kathleen Flenniken's Plume 20 Extinction and Re-Plenitude 21 Anti-Atmospheres and Everyday Rare Phenomena 22 "Imperial Debris": The Vietnam War and Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain Section V: Environmental Justice and Activism 23 Saboteurial Poetics: Blockades, Machine-Breaking, and Infrastructure From Below 24 Witness to the Exchange: Documentary Environmental Poetics 25 Energy Ecopoetics 26 "To End Again Tomorrow": The Virtual Reality Ecopoetics of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) Section VI: Region and Place 27 African Ecopoetics 28 Nature in Contemporary Pakistani Poetry: An Ecopoetical Reading 29 Ecopoetics and Ecofeminist Poetics in Contemporary China 30 Vahni Capildeo and the Convergence of Ecopoetics and Dougla Poetics 31 Building a Homestead: An Ecopoetic Reading of the Poetry of Paul Celan 32 Country Matters: Introducing Australian Ecopoetics 33 Francophone Ecopoetics: The Performativity of the Text Section VII: Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities 34 Taken by the Creek: The Queer Ecology of Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime Against Nature 35 Entangled Remembrances: Counter-Memory and New Materialism in Judith Wright's Poetry 36 Indigenous Counter-Narratives: Sámi Poetry Challenging the Mastery of Nature 37 The (Un)Sustainable Self and Posthuman Spaces of Interiority in Contemporary North American and Polish Poetry 38 It Expresses THEM!: Black Women's Writings and Ecopoetics 39 "Who was Ever Only Themselves?" Cross-Border Ecologies of Translation Index