Recomposing Ecopoetics

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 poets ...from Evelyn Reilly and Juliana Spahr to Ed Roberson and Jena Osman...this study examines poetry of the "self-conscious Anthropocene," a period in which there is growing awareness of the scale and severity of human effects on the planet. This study brings cutting-edge work in ecocriticism to bear on a diverse archive of contemporary environmental poetry and offers the environmental humanities new ways to understand the cultural and affective dimensions of the Anthropocene

Anthropocene · Art · Astrobiology · Environmental ethics · Literature · Physics · Poetry · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · 21st century · American poetry · American poetry, history and criticism · Canadian poetry · Canadian poetry, history and criticism · Ecocriticism · Ecology in literature · Environmentalism in literature · History and criticism · Human-animal relationships in literature · Philosophy of nature in literature · Place (philosophy) in literature · History · Philosophy