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Adam Dickinson
animate
anxiety
apocalyptic discourse
art
atom
Author_Lynn Keller
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Charles Darwin
dwelling in crisis
ecocentrism
ecopoetics
Ed Roberson
embodiment
environmental humanities
epistemology
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eroticism
ethics
Evelyn Reilly
Forrest Gander
history
hope
humor
hunting
imagination
Juliana Spahr
Mary Oliver
nuclear
parataxis
pastoral
planetary change
poet
Sago mining disaster
scalar dissonance
scale
science
sense of place
settler colonial society
toxicity
visual images
waste
water
watershed
Wendell Berry
Western cultures
Product details
- ISBN 9780813940625
- Weight: 415g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jan 2018
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the ""self-conscious Anthropocene,"" a period in which there is widespread awareness of the scale and severity of human effects on the planet. Recomposing Ecopoetics analyzes work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets-including Evelyn Reilly, Juliana Spahr, Ed Roberson, and Jena Osman-all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. Drawing as often on linguistic experimentalism as on traditional literary resources, 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 interdisciplinary study not only brings cutting-edge work in ecocriticism to bear on a diverse archive of contemporary environmental poetry; it also offers the environmental humanities new ways to understand the cultural and affective dimensions of the Anthropocene.
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.
