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 approachesExperiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crisesEarth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systemsWaste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate changeEnvironmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural changeRegion and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; andSubjectivities/Affects/Sexualities: investigations of gender ethnicity and race as they intersect with ecological concernsEach 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 These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities backgrounds perspectives and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics.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.