Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics</em> offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field followed by six sections:</p><ul> <li> <strong>Perspectives</strong>: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis kinship praxis and philosophical approaches</li> <li> <b>Experiments</b>: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crises</li> <li> <b>Earth and Water</b>: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systems</li> <li> <b>Waste/Toxicity/Precarity: </b>poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate change</li> <li> <b>Environmental Justice and Activism</b>: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural change</li> <li> <b>Region and Place</b>: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; and</li> <li> <b>Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities</b>: investigations of gender ethnicity and race as they intersect with ecological concerns</li> </ul><p>Each section includes an overview and summary addressing the specific essays in the section. These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities backgrounds perspectives and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Contributions from leading scholars working across the globe make <i>The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics </i>a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.</p>