Nature, Environment and Poetry

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131768284X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature, Environment and Poetry by : Susanna Lidström

Download or read book Nature, Environment and Poetry written by Susanna Lidström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues to fall short. To address these challenges it seems clear that we need new ways of thinking about the relationship between humans and nature, local and global, and past, present and future. One place to look for such new ideas is in poetry, designed to contain multiple levels of meaning at once, challenge the imagination, and evoke responses that are based on something more than scientific consensus and rationale. This ecocritical book traces the environmental sensibilities of two Anglophone poets; Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), and British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (1930-1998). Drawing on recent and multifarious developments in ecocritical theory, it examines how Hughes's and Heaney's respective poetics interact with late twentieth century developments in environmental thought, focusing in particular on ideas about ecology and environment in relation to religion, time, technology, colonialism, semiotics, and globalisation. This book is aimed at students of literature and environment, the relationship between poetry and environmental humanities, and the poetry of Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300155530
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Can Poetry Save the Earth? by : John Felstiner

Download or read book Can Poetry Save the Earth? written by John Felstiner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In forty brief and lucid chapters, Felstiner presents those voices that have most strongly spoken to and for the natural world. Poets- from the Romantics through Whitman and Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop and Gary Snyder- have helped us envision such details as ocean winds eroding and rebuilding dunes in the same breath, wild deer freezing in our presence, and a person carving initials on a still-living stranded whale.

Poems for a Small Planet

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Poems for a Small Planet by : Robert Pack

Download or read book Poems for a Small Planet written by Robert Pack and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-three poets forge a vision of nature for the post-industrial age.

Black Nature

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334316
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Nature by : Camille T. Dungy

Download or read book Black Nature written by Camille T. Dungy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.

Sustainable Poetry

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813160049
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Sustainable Poetry by : Leonard M. Scigaj

Download or read book Sustainable Poetry written by Leonard M. Scigaj and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 interests of human beings with the needs of nature. Just as science learned that the earth was not the center of the universe, ecopoetry insists on the recognition that humans are not at the center of the natural world.

Book of Nature Poetry

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426320949
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Book of Nature Poetry by : J. Patrick Lewis

Download or read book Book of Nature Poetry written by J. Patrick Lewis and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When words in verse are paired with the awesomeness of nature, something magical happens ... Lewis curates [a] ... poetic celebration of the natural world in this ... collection of nature poems. From trickling streams to deafening thrunderstorms to soaring mountains, discover ... photography ... paired with contemporary (such as Billy Collins), classics (such as Robert Frost), and never-before-published works"--

Rewilding

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ISBN 13 : 9781733976343
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (763 download)

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Book Synopsis Rewilding by : Crystal Gibbins

Download or read book Rewilding written by Crystal Gibbins and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewilding: Poems for the Environment is an essential volume of contemporary poetry that encourages us to reevaluate and restore our relationship with the nonhuman world, featuring poems by Camille Dungy, Joy Harjo, Ted Kooser, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Craig Santos Perez, Karen Solie, and a 100 more renowned and emerging poets.

Green Voices

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719043468
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (434 download)

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Book Synopsis Green Voices by : Terry Gifford

Download or read book Green Voices written by Terry Gifford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author here argues that the traditions of Pope and Goldsmith are continued in the present day by the likes of R.S. Thomas, George Mackay Brown, and others work in an 'anti-pastoralist' tradition of Crabbe and Clare. A chapter examining the attitudes towards the environment of sixteen contemporary poets concludes a lively ecological introduction to modern poetry.

Nature, Environment and Poetry

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682858
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature, Environment and Poetry by : Susanna Lidström

Download or read book Nature, Environment and Poetry written by Susanna Lidström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues to fall short. To address these challenges it seems clear that we need new ways of thinking about the relationship between humans and nature, local and global, and past, present and future. One place to look for such new ideas is in poetry, designed to contain multiple levels of meaning at once, challenge the imagination, and evoke responses that are based on something more than scientific consensus and rationale. This ecocritical book traces the environmental sensibilities of two Anglophone poets; Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), and British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (1930-1998). Drawing on recent and multifarious developments in ecocritical theory, it examines how Hughes's and Heaney's respective poetics interact with late twentieth century developments in environmental thought, focusing in particular on ideas about ecology and environment in relation to religion, time, technology, colonialism, semiotics, and globalisation. This book is aimed at students of literature and environment, the relationship between poetry and environmental humanities, and the poetry of Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney

Sisters of the Earth

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Sisters of the Earth by : Lorraine Anderson

Download or read book Sisters of the Earth written by Lorraine Anderson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces us to female perspectives on nature. Over 90 selections, from Emily Dickinson to Alice Walker, span a century and encompass the voices of a variety of women--some known for their writing on nature, and several outstanding new voices

The Ecopoetry Anthology

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Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595341455
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ecopoetry Anthology by : Ann Fisher-Wirth

Download or read book The Ecopoetry Anthology written by Ann Fisher-Wirth and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly complex and often disturbing natural world and inquires of our human place in a vastness beyond the human. To establish the antecedents of today's writing,The Ecopoetry Anthology presents a historical section that includes poetry written from roughly the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Iconic American poets like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are followed by more modern poets like Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and even more recent foundational work by poets like Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, and Muriel Rukeyser. With subtle discernment, the editors portray our country's rich heritage and dramatic range of writing about the natural world around us.

Imagining the Earth

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820318477
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Imagining the Earth by : John Elder

Download or read book Imagining the Earth written by John Elder and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work explores how our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in and influenced by poetry. Showing us a resurgent vision of harmony between nature and humanity in the work of some of our most widely read poets, Imagining the Earth reveals the power of poetry to identify, interpret, and celebrate a wide range of issues related to nature and our place in it.

Recomposing Ecopoetics

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081394063X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Recomposing Ecopoetics by : Lynn Keller

Download or read book Recomposing Ecopoetics written by Lynn Keller and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Poetry for the Earth

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Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0449905993
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry for the Earth by : Sara Dunn

Download or read book Poetry for the Earth written by Sara Dunn and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1992 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the state of the environment is a very current issue, passion and concern for the world around us is nearly as old as the world itself. Poetry for the Earth brings together a cross-section of some of the most beautiful and haunting poetry ever written in tribute to--or in mourning for--our magnificent landscapes.

Nature Poem

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Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1941040640
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Nature Poem by : Tommy Pico

Download or read book Nature Poem written by Tommy Pico and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.

Toothsome

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ISBN 13 : 9781950380657
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Toothsome by : Arturo Zilleruelo

Download or read book Toothsome written by Arturo Zilleruelo and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of Toothsome's evocative poems compels us to read more. Whether couched in the history of Antinous or a personal legend of a wolf-stalker, these vibrant, allusive, and finely hewn verses take us inside the speaker's "secret doors to fens and moors" to discover truths "locked inside the moon/and the sky's bright organs." Here, you will find yourself in a retirement home for the gods or watching a child indiscriminately amputate the limbs of a chocolate bunny. Art Zilleruelo's Toothsome is a message in a bottle. The only thing that surpasses the appeal of setting a message adrift on the sea is being the reader on the opposite shore. -Eileen Cleary, Carve Magazine In "Toothsome," Art Zilleruelo's new and stunning collection, prophetic voices and circumstances provide, in starkly human terms, a wisdom and sorrow rooted in the landscapes of Bloomsburg, Ashland, and the Pennsylvania coal country surrounding Glen Burn Colliery. The haunting lyricism in this collection rises from deep underground to erupt in a controlled rage against our political, economic, and personal tragedies and weaknesses. These are deeply felt, wide-awake poems worthy of your attention. - Rick Mulkey, author of Ravenous: New & Selected Poems (Serving House Press, 2014), Director of the Creative Writing Program at Converse College. Exquisitely detailed and privately apocalyptic, every one of these pieces. Zilleruelo hunts through the cellular tangles of our word world to gut and skin and repurpose the human voice, reanimating it as more feral, more hopeful, releasing it then into fresh intersections of land, love, faith, and forgiveness--Toothsome grants the sort of ineffable reconciliation that only the most masterful poetry can supply. --Nate Liederba

The Nature of the Page

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081225189X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nature of the Page by : Joshua Calhoun

Download or read book The Nature of the Page written by Joshua Calhoun and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural resources with abundant ones. Because plants, like humans, are susceptible to the ravages of time, it is also a story of corruption and the hope that we can preserve the things we love from decay. Combining environmental and bibliographical research with deft literary analysis, Calhoun reveals how much we have left to discover in familiar texts. He describes the transformation of plant material into a sheet of paper, details how ecological availability or scarcity influenced literary output in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines the impact of the various colors and qualities of paper on early modern reading practices. Through a discussion of sizing—the mixture used to coat the surface of paper so that ink would not blot into its fibers—he reveals a surprising textual interaction between animals and readers. He shows how we might read an indistinct stain on the page of an early modern book to better understand the mixed media surfaces on which readers, writers, and printers recorded and revised history. Lastly, Calhoun considers how early modern writers imagined paper decay and how modern scholars grapple with biodeterioration today. Exploring the poetic interplay between human ideas and the plant, animal, and mineral forms through which they are mediated, The Nature of the Page prompts readers to reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old books to new smartphones.