Ecopoetry
A Critical Introduction
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Edited by J. Scott Bryson
Foreword by John Elder
6 x 9, 272 pp.
Paper $19.95
978-0-87480-701-1
Literary Criticism
The burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions from many of the most important scholars in the field as they discuss the historical and crosscultural roots of ecopoetry, while expanding the boundaries to include such themes as genocide and extinction, the lesbian body, and postcolonialism. This volume gathers these necessary voices in the emerging conversation regarding poetry’s place in the environmental debate.
J. Scott Bryson is assistant professor in the English department at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles.
Praises and Reviews
"The essays are uniformly thoughtful, perceptive, and readable . . . [and] engage the current scholarship gracefully, without pretense or pedantry. Each chapter is stuffed with insights.”
-John Tallmadge, The Union Institute
Contributors
J. Scott Bryson, Mount St. Mary’s College
Laird Christensen, Green Mountain College
Beverly Curran, Aichi Shukutoku University
Deborah Fleming, Ashland University
Terry Gifford, University of Leeds
David Gilcrest, Carroll College
Maggie Gordon, University of Mississippi
Emily Hegarty, Nassau Community College
Richard Hunt, Mesabi Range College
Roy Osamu Kamada, University of California, Davis
Mark Long, Keene State College
Bernard W. Quetchenbach, Florida Southern College
Leonard M. Scigaj, Virginia Polytechnic
Roger Thompson, Virginia Military Institute
Jeffrey Thomson, Chatham College
Gyorgyi Voros, Virginia Polytechnic
Zhou Xiaojing, State University of New York, Buffalo
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