Omschrijving
Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take “nature” to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.
"This boundary-pushing text brings to the fore dynamic ecopoetic work reconstituting the lyric–nature–wilderness assemblage that has dominated the study of North American ecopoetry. As such, the monograph makes a distinct contribution to ecopoetics through its thoroughgoing exploration of experimental, radical, urban, less accessible, and non-lyric modes [...] an eminently valuable addition to anglophone ecopoetic criticism." — Modern Language Review
Lynn Keller is Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and Bradshaw Knight Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author, most recently, of Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Experimental Poetics.