Recomposing Ecopoetics

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"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"--

subjects: Place (philosophy) in literature,  American poetry, history and criticism, 21st century,  Canadian poetry, history and criticism,  Ecocriticism,  Philosophy of nature in literature,  Ecology in literature,  Human-animal relationships in literature,  Environmentalism in literature,  American poetry,  History and criticism,  Canadian poetry