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Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene

Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene

Keller, Lynn

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Series: Under the Sign of Nature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0813940621
ISBN13: 9780813940625
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Jan 16 2018
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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