The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (Routledge Literature Companions)

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics</em> 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:</p><ul> <li> <strong>Perspectives</strong>: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approaches</li> <li> <b>Experiments</b>: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crises</li> <li> <b>Earth and Water</b>: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systems</li> <li> <b>Waste/Toxicity/Precarity: </b>poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate change</li> <li> <b>Environmental Justice and Activism</b>: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural change</li> <li> <b>Region and Place</b>: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; and</li> <li> <b>Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities</b>: investigations of gender, ethnicity, and race as they intersect with ecological concerns</li> </ul><p>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 These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics.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 <i>The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics </i>a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p>Section I. Perspectives</p><p>Mary Newell</p><p>Chapter 1. The Poetics of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene</p><p>Lynn Keller</p><p>Chapter 2. The Agencene</p><p>H. L. Hix</p><p>Chapter 3. Decolonial Praxis/Indigenous Resurgence: Relational Accountability in ‘Kin Study’ Poetics</p><p>Linda Russo</p><p>Chapter 4. Planetary Poiesis</p><p>Aaron Moe</p><p>Chapter 5. Lucretius, Extinction Rebellion, and the Poetics of Love and Rage</p><p>Evelyn Reilly</p><p>Section II. Experiments</p><p>Julia Fiedorczuk</p><p>Chapter 6. Indigenous <i>Poiesis</i>: The Semiotics of Circulation in Villegas’ Maya Poetry</p><p>Charles Maurice Pigott</p><p>Chapter 7. Embodiment as an ‘Ongoing Formal Experience’: New Materialist Encounters with Ecopoetics</p><p>Joanna Mąkowska</p><p>Chapter 8. Down in Strata: Stratigraphic Poetics and Feminist Literary Engagement in Brenda Hillman’s <i>Cascadia</i></p><p>Gerald Maa and Ben Rutherfurd</p><p>Chapter 9. Cartographical Imagination as an Ecopoetic Mode of Engaging the Global</p><p>Grzegorz Czemiel</p><p>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</p><p>Harriet Tarlo</p><p>Section III. Earth and Water</p><p>Orchid Tierney</p><p>Chapter 11. Phytopoetics: Human-Plant Relations and the Poiesis of Vegetal Life"</p><p>John Charles Ryan</p><p>Chapter 12. Amazonian Zoophytography: Ecopoetic Writing with Animals and Plants </p><p>Patrícia Vieira</p><p>Chapter 13. Elegiac Joy: Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Poetics of the Garden</p><p>Anissa Wardi</p><p>Chapter 14. Riparian Entanglements: an Ecopoetics of the Colonial River</p><p>Stephen Collis</p><p>Chapter 15. "Nature’s way of representing the world": Alice Oswald’s Poetry and Poetics of Water<br>Christian Schmitt-Kilb</p><p>Chapter 16. Women Poets Breaking the Waves of the Portuguese Sea</p><p>Nuno Marques and Margarida Vale de Gato</p><p>Chapter 17. "Will plastic make life impossible<i>?</i>: Transpacific Poets Confront Ocean Plastic</p><p>Aaron Pinnix</p><p>Section IV. Waste/Toxicity/Precarity</p><p>Adam Dickinson</p><p>Chapter 18. The Work of Reconnection, Japanese Ecopoetry by Rumiko Kora and Ryoichi Wago</p><p>Ayako Takahashi and Judy Halebsky</p><p>Chapter 19. "The machine took me in’: Processing Nuclear Labors in Kathleen Flenniken’s <i>Plume</i>"</p><p>Nicole M. Merola</p><p>Chapter 20. Extinction and Re-Plenitude</p><p>Joshua Schuster</p><p>Chapter 21. Anti-Atmospheres and Everyday Rare Phenomena</p><p>Orchid Tierney</p><p>Chapter 22. "Imperial Debris": the Vietnam War and Mai Der Vang’s <i>Yellow Rain</i></p><p>Zhou Xiaojing</p><p>Section V. Environmental Justice and Activism</p><p>Bernard Quetchenbach</p><p>Chapter 23. Saboteurial Poetics: Blockades, Machine-Breaking, & Infrastructure from Below</p><p>Alexandra Campbell and Fred Carter</p><p>Chapter 24. Witness to the Exchange: Documentary Environmental Poetics</p><p>Jonathan Skinner</p><p>Chapter 25. Energy Ecopoetics</p><p>Margaret Ronda and Kristin George Bagdanov</p><p>Chapter 26. "To end again tomorrow": The Virtual Reality Ecopoetics of <i>On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World </i></p><p>Kaitlin Moore </p><p>Section VI. Region and Place</p><p>Bernard Quetchenbach</p><p>Chapter 27. African Ecopoetics</p><p>Philip Aghoghvwia and Emily McGiffin</p><p>Chapter 28. <b>‘</b>New’ Nature Poetry: An Ecopoetical Reading of Contemporary </p><p>Pakistani Nature Poetry</p><p>Munazza Yaqoob</p><p>Chapter 29. Ecopoetics and Ecofeminist Poetics in Contemporary China</p><p>Liansu Meng</p><p>Chapter 30. Vahni Capildeo and the Convergence of Ecopoetics and Dougla Poetics</p><p>Lubabah Chowdhury</p><p>Chapter 31. Building a Homestead: An Ecopoetic Reading of the Poetry of Paul Celan</p><p>Paweł Piszczatowski</p><p>Chapter 32. Country Matters: Introducing Australian Ecopoetics</p><p>Tom Bristow</p><p>Chapter 33. Francophone Ecopoetics: The Performativity of the Text</p><p>Gina Stamm</p><p>Section VII. Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities</p><p>Orchid Tierney</p><p>Chapter 34. Taken by the Creek: The Queer Ecology of Minnie Bruce Pratt’s <i>Crime Against Nature</i></p><p>Stacey Balkun</p><p>Chapter 35. Entangled Remembrances: Counter-memory and New Materialism in Judith Wright’s Poetry"</p><p>Rıza Çimen</p><p>Chapter 36. Indigenous Counter-Narratives: Sámi Poetry Challenging the Mastery of Nature </p><p>Anne Heith</p><p>Chapter 37. The (Un)Sustainable Self and Post-Human Spaces of Interiority in Contemporary North American and Polish Poetry</p><p>Paulina Ambroży</p><p>Chapter 38. It Expresses THEM!: Black Women’s Writings and Ecopoetics</p><p>Carlyn Ferrari</p><p>Chapter 39. Who was ever only themselves?" Cross-border Ecologies of Translation</p><p>Zoë Skoulding</p>