Recomposing ecopoetics : North American poetry of the self-conscious anthropocene /
This book grapples with key cultural and environmental conundrums that confront us now: the scale of planetary change, toxicity, plastics, apocalypticism, human relations to nonhuman animals, place in a globalized world and environmental justice issues. Analyzing work by contemporary North American...
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| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Under the sign of nature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: beyond nature poetry
- "In deep time into deepsong": writing the scalar challenges of the anthropocene
- Toxicity, nets, and polymeric chains: the ecopoetics of plastic
- "Under these apo-calypso rays": crisis, pleasure, and eco-apocalyptic poetry
- Understanding nonhumans: interspecies communication in poetry
- Global rearrangements: sense of place in twenty-first-century ecopoetics
- Environmental justice poetry of the self-conscious anthropocene
- Coda: writing the self-conscious anthropocene.