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Sustainable Poetry : Four American Ecopoets
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ISBN: 0813148014 9780813148014 0813121205 9780813121208 Year: 1999 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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Focusing on the work of A.R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, W.S. Merwin, and Gary Snyder, author Leonard Scigaj shows that just as a sustainable society does not depreciate its resource base, so a sustainable poetry does not restrict interest to language. Over the past thirty years many poets have shown an increasing sensitivity to ecological thinking. But critics trained in poststructuralist language theory often fail to explore the substance of ecopoetry. Scigaj is the first to define ecopoetry as separate and distinct from nature or environmental poetry, marked by its concern with balancing the int

The west side of any mountain : place, space, and ecopoetry
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ISBN: 1587296403 9781587296406 087745955X 9780877459552 Year: 2005 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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In contrast to nature poets of the past who tended more toward the bucolic and pastoral, many contemporary nature poets are taking up radical environmental and ecological themes. In the last few years, interesting and evocative work that examines this poetry has begun to lay the foundation for studies in ecopoetics. Informed in general by current thinking in environmental theory and specifically by the work of cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, The West Side of Any Mountain participates in and furthers this scholarly attention by offering an overarching theoretical framework with which to approach the field."--BOOK JACKET.

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